Vera Lynn Of The World newspaper, with proceeds in aid of the Gulf Trust. Vera Lynn Dame Vera Margaret Lynn (; born 20 March 1917), widely known as "the Forces' Sweetheart", is an English singer of traditional pop, songwriter and actress, whose musical recordings and performances were enormously popular during the Second World War. During the war she toured Egypt, India, and Burma as part of ENSA, giving outdoor concerts for the troops. 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
Vera Michurina-Samoilova Vera Michurina-Samoilova Vera Arkadevna Michurina-Samoilova (; 1866–1948) was a Russian and Soviet actress of Saint Petersburg / Leningrad. She was a People's Artist of the USSR. Michurina-Samoilova was born in Saint Petersburg, into the Samoilov theatre family. Michurina-Samoilova debuted on stage in 1886. She often appeared at the Alexandrinsky Theatre. Among her notable roles were Reneve in "Light Without Heat" (by Alexander Ostrovsky and Nikolai Solovyov), Natalia Petrovna in Turgenev's "A Month in the Country", Ranevskaia in Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard", and Lady Milford in Schiller's "Intrigue and Love". The 1917 October Revolution and the establishment of the Soviet state