Armed Forces sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn will be beamed on the White Cliffs of Dover to celebrate her 100th birthday
FORCES sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn will be projected onto the White Cliffs of Dover tomorrow night to celebrate her 100th birthday.
A younger Dame Vera, whose songs brought hope during World War Two, will appear on the Cliffs through the use of cinema projectors during the The One Show on BBC1.
The larger-than-life projected figure will perform 1942 hit song The White Cliffs of Dover.
More than 50 Care UK homes will bring their residents out to join in with a singalong of her wartime hit, We'll Meet Again, reports Sunday People.
This song was used as encouragement for soldiers and their families during the war reminding them that it would eventually come to an end and they would be reunited with their loved ones.
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Dame Lynn started her career at the age of 15 and she was soon put under the spotlight as a regular on BBC radio.
The centenarian celebrated her birthday with the release of a new album, eight years after she became the oldest living artist to top the UK album charts.
The new record is a compilation of her hits and she is joined by a line-up of chart-topping British singers on the album, including Alfie Boe on We’ll Meet Again, Alexander Armstrong on White Cliffs Of Dover and Aled Jones on As Time Goes By.
Dame Vera has been celebrated for her charitable work throughout her lifetime, working with ex-servicemen, disabled children and breast cancer charities.
She received an OBE in 1969, DBE in 1975 and in 1978 she was given the Freedom of the City of London.
In 2000, she was named the Briton who best exemplified the spirit of the 20th century.
Last year she made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, for being “the voice of hope” during the Second World War.