FAREWELL TO AN ICON Dame Vera Lynn was the girl-next-door who kept Britain smiling through WW2 – we’ll never meet such an inspiration againDame Vera Lynn, the Forces' Sweetheart, in uniform in 1941 Dame Vera Margaret Lynn CH DBE OStJ (née Welch; 20 March 1917 – 18 June 2020) was an English singer and entertainer whose musical recordings and performances were very popular during World War II. She..