Person Open DS/UK/3507 Lynn; Dame; Vera (20 March 1917-18 June 2020); CH DBE OStJ; English singer Lynn Vera Dame 20 March 1917-18 June 2020 English singer Female (cisgender) Vera Margaret Welch East Ham, Essex, England (born)

English Music | Vocals White No known disability No known religious affiliation Spouse of Harry Lewis (English clarinetist and saxophonist and member of Ambrose's orchestra) Heterosexual Dame Vera Lynn CH DBE OStJ is an English singer of traditional popular music, songwriter and actress, whose musical recordings and performances were enormously popular during the Second World War. She is known as "the Forces' Sweetheart" for giving outdoor concerts for the troops in Egypt, India, and Burma during the war as part of Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). The songs most associated with her are "We'll Meet Again", "The White Cliffs of Dover", "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" and "There'll Always Be an England". She remained popular after the war, appearing on radio and television in the UK and the US and recording such hits as "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" and her UK number one single "My Son, My Son". Her last single, "I Love This Land", was released to mark the end of the Falklands War. In 2009, at age 92, she became the oldest living artist to top the UK Albums Chart, with compilation album We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn. She released the compilation album of hits Vera Lynn 100 in 2017, to commemorate her centennial year, and it was a number-3 hit, making her the first centenarian performer to have an album in the charts. Lynn sang outside Buckingham Palace in 1995 in a ceremony that marked the golden jubilee of VE Day. This is stated to have been her last known public performance. Centenarian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Lynn (2019) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHSkeyte 12/19/2012 RAHAKirkbride 10/25/2023 ced09e75-001a-4729-8471-311de3353f4e