“It’s the girl that makes the thing that drills the hole that holds the ring That makes the thing-ummy-bob that makes the engines roar. And it’s the girl that makes the thing that holds the oil that oils the ring That makes the thing-ummy-bob that's going to win the war”

Despite an operation for cervical cancer at the Chelsea Hospital for Women in July 1939, Gracie Fields cut short her convalescence on Capri to entertain the troops in France, later raising money for war charities, entertaining troops abroad & touring UK army camps & factories