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Gracie Fields, English singing star of stage and radio, arrived at Morotai on 23 August 1945 on a RAAF transport aircraft. Met by Major R J Hardy, camp commandant; she was taken to the C-in-C's mess where she met Major General Clive S Steele, DSO, MC, VD, and had tea with General Blamey; she put on a show for the 2/5th Australian General Hospital on the 24th August and just before leaving, autographed a plaster cast on a patient's fractured leg. Gracie was accompanied by her husband, Monty Banks.
MOROTAI. 1945-08-23. MISS GRACIE FIELDS, ENGLISH COMEDIENNE, AND HER HUSBAND, MR MONTY BANKS, BEING INTRODUCED TO MAJOR-GENERAL C. S. STEELE, ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF, BY MAJOR R. J. HARDY, CAMP COMMANDANT,
On arrival at Wewak airstrip from Madang, where she had given a concert the previous day, Miss Fields and her party were mobbed by diggers who had come down to the strip to catch a glimpse of them. Sh
Gracie Field and her husband Monty Banks arrived at Torokina in a RAAF Lodestar plane to begin a tour of the battlefields. She attended the Thanksgiving Service held for victory over Japan and sang "T
LABUAN ISLAND. 1945-08-27. AUSTRALIAN ARMY AMENITIES SERVICE AND RAAF WELFARE UNITS ARRANGED A GRACIE FIELDS CONCERT FOR THE TROOPS ON LABUAN. THE CONCERT PARTY WAS ASSISTED BY PERFORMERS FROM AIF AND
