Vera Lynn
British singer (1917-2020) · United Kingdom · Musicians · Died at 103
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Something wrong?Dame Vera Margaret Lewis, known professionally as Vera Lynn, was an English singer and entertainer whose musical recordings and performances were popular during World War II.
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Lynn sings at a munitions factory in wartime Britain, early 1941.
Vera Lynn in 1973
Lynn in 2009
Dame Vera Lynn's daughter Virginia Lewis-Jones and Ross Kolby in front of his portrait of Lynn at the unveiling ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall on 13 January 2020.![Locomotive Number"}]],"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"Abbr","href":"./Template:Abbr"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"No."},"2":{"wt":"Number"}},"i":0}}]}" id="mwAuE">No. 3672 Dame Vera Lynn at North Yorkshire Moors Railway.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Train_heading_towards_Grosmont_tunnel_-_geograph.org.uk_-_779491.jpg/500px-Train_heading_towards_Grosmont_tunnel_-_geograph.org.uk_-_779491.jpg)
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Vera Lynn, Hawkwind, and others at Crystal Palace Bowl, 24 August 1985
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Dame Vera Margaret Lewis, known professionally as Vera Lynn, was an English singer and entertainer whose musical recordings and performances were popular during World War II. She is honorifically known as the "Forces' Sweetheart", having given outdoor concerts for the troops in Egypt, India, and Burma during the war as part of the Entertainments National Service Association. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography wrote of Lynn, "Her reassuring voice and mastery of radio made her the forces' sweetheart in the Second World War - a connection she fostered with her ongoing commitment to veterans and memory of the war." The songs most associated with her include "We'll Meet Again", "(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover" and "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square".
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Bradley WalshAlso in The Unforgettable Norman Wisdom (2011)
Nicholas ParsonsAlso in 13 Hours That Saved Britain (2011)
Patricia RocAlso in We'll Meet Again (1943)
Mary ClareAlso in One Exciting Night (1944)
Peter Murray-HillAlso in Rhythm Serenade (1943)
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