Dame Vera Lynn dies at 103: Her life in pictures
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Forces' sweetheart Vera Lynn shown here entertaining troops at a concert in September 1940.
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Vera Lynn pictured in the 1940s.
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Vera Lynn receives a grand welcome as she arrives in Trafalgar Square during the Salvage Week campaign of 1943.
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Vera Lynn opens a variety Ladies Guild YMCA car in London in June 1942.
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Dame Vera Lynn pictured with her baby daughter, Virginia.
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Dame Vera Lynn pictured in 1952.
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Vera Lynn entertains ex-servicemen at a garden party held by the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
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Dame Vera Lynn rehearses her new radio show in 1965.
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Dame Vera Lynn appears on BBC series 'At Home'.
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Dame Vera Lynn and husband Harry Lewis after a judge ruled that the song 'Travellin' Home' did not infringe the copyright of 'Westering Home'.
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Gooning Around
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Liberace at the piano With Vera Lynn, Marion Ryan, Alma Cogan, Janet Scott, Yana and Anne Shelton in 1960.
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Dame Vera Lynn performs on TV around 1965.
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Dame Vera Lynn performs on stage.
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The forces' sweetheart at the piano with her husband, musician Harry Lewis, in 1975.
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Pop group Slade pictured with Dame Vera Lynn at a lunch for the New Musical awards.
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Cliff Richard and Harry Secombe pictured with Dame Vera Lynn.
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Vera Lynn after being invested as a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1975.
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Henry Cooper is the patient and Dame "Nurse" Vera Lynn helps him out.
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Dame Vera Lynn and Adam Ant pictured at the recording of a Radio 1 show with DJ Peter Young.
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Radio DJ Tony Blackburn and Dame Vera Lynn pictured in the Radio Times in 1981.
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Prince Charles meets Vera Lynn and Tommy Steele at a variety show in 1982.
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Broadcaster Sue Lawley and Dame Vera Lynn for Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.
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Dame Vera Lynn and veterans at the opening of Hellfire Corner at Dover Castle, Kent, in 1990.
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Dame Vera Lynn performs for the Queen Mother's 90th birthday gala, alongside flautist James Calway and pop star Cliff Richard.
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The Queen and Dame Vera Lynn at an event to mark the 40th anniversary of Elizabeth's accession to the throne.
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Princess Margaret and Dame Vera Lynn at an event marking the singer's 80th birthday.
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Dame Vera Lynn joins the Spice Girls to launch the 1997 Poppy Appeal.
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DAME VERA LYNN AT 90 Spitfire Vera Lynn
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Dame Vera Lynn alongside Baroness Thatcher and Dame Shirley Bassey at the Royal Academy of Art for the Queen's Jubilee Arts Party.
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Countess Mountbatten of Burma and Dame Vera Lynn with Burma veterans at a grand reunion of the 'forgotten' Fourteenth Army.
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Dame Vera Lynn and Katherine Jenkins at the VE Day 60th Anniversary - Party To Remember Concert in Trafalgar Square, London.
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Katherine Jenkins and Dame Vera Lynn at the 2005 Chelsea Flower Show.
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Dame Vera Lynn, Cliff Richard and Harry Secombe sing for the crowds for the 50th anniversary of VE Day in 1995.
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Dame Vera Lynn joins Petula Clark and Bruce Forsyth for a rendition of 'We'll Meet Again' during the 'Recollections Of World War II Commemoration Show' in 2005.
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Vera Lynn meets veterans and lookalikes of famous generals at the War and Peace Show in Kent.
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The Duke of Edinburgh and the wartime singer at 60th anniversary of VJ Day at the Imperial War Museum.
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The Princess Royal and Dame Vera Lynn at the Not Forgotten Association Christmas Party.
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Ronnie Wood, Dame Vera Lynn and Cilla Black at the 2010 Nordoff Robbins Silver Clef Awards.
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Hayley Westenra and Dame Vera Lynn at the launch of the 2009 Poppy Appeal.
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Spitfires and Hurricanes mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle Of Britain.
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Katherine Jenkins pictured with Dame Vera Lynn as part of the wartime singer's 90th birthday celebrations.
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The Prince of Wales and Dame Vera Lynn at a Not Forgotten Association reception in 2006.
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Dame Vera Lynn pictured with her autobiography 'Some Sunny Day'.
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Forces sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn stirred the hearts of millions with songs and a personality that brought hope and inspiration during the darkest days of the Second World War.
Decades later her name is as enduring as that of Sir Winston Churchill as a figure who played a huge role in keeping up the spirits of a civilian population suffering under the Blitz and troops training at home and fighting overseas.
But her showbusiness career extended well beyond the war, as she entertained Britain right up to the end of her life.