Forces’ sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn – who gave hope.

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<p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Forces’ sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn – who gave hope to millions of Britons fighting around the globe during the darkest hours of the Second World War – was today honoured with a flypast from two Spitfires above her beloved Sussex village before her funeral. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>The adored star, who risked her own life to entertain troops with morale-boosting visits to the front line during the conflict, died aged 103 on June 18 and today the historic aircraft tore across the clear East Sussex sky in a moving tribute to one of Britain’s best-known and best-loved singers.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>One of the Spitfires was the only surviving one to have actually served in the Battle of Britain as the Luftwaffe was repelled in 1940.

The other bore the black and white ‘invasion stripes’ that Allied aircraft were painted with for 우리카지노 D-Day to identify them as ‘friendly’ to Allied air and ground forces.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>On her final journey through the picturesque village of Ditchling, mourners including BBC DJ Zoe Ball wiped away tears as they lined the streets to see the hearse carrying her coffin wrapped in a Union Flag, 라이브카지노 which was guided by members of all three Armed Forces and followed by her family.

A service at Brighton Crematorium followed where a Royal Marines bugler played a lament.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Poignantly Dame Vera’s funeral coincided with the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Britain, in which the Royal Air Force defeated the Luftwaffe and staved off invasion from Hitler’s forces in France. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Minutes after the funeral began the Queen’s official Twitter account said: ‘Today marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Britain, the battle which turned the tide of World War Two.

I remember the Battle of Britain being fought in the skies above us, and we shall never forget the courage and sacrifice of that time’.  </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Her Majesty sent a private message of condolence to her family while Prince Charles led public tributes after Dame Vera’s death.</p><div class=”mol-img-group xwArtSplitter” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>Huge numbers took to the streets to see the cortege carrying Dame Vera Lynn’s coffin pass through her West Sussex village as the residents said goodbye to their most famous daughter</p></div><div class=”mol-img-group xwArtSplitter” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>Dame Vera lived in the picturesque village of Ditchling, pictured, for fifty years, where friends and fans turned out to say goodbye to the much loved singer</p></div><div class=”mol-img-group xwArtSplitter” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>The flypast over Dame Vera’s funeral procession moved many to tears ad Britain also marks 80 years since the start of the Battle of Britain</p></div><div class=”mol-img-group xwArtSplitter” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>The Spitfires, top in D-Day stripes) and 퍼스트카지노쿠폰 the bottom in Battle of Britain colours, swooped over Vera Lynn’s funeral three times today</p></div><div class=”mol-img-group xwArtSplitter” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>The planes – two of the most famous aircraft from the war – took to the skies this morning in tribute to the Forces Sweetheart</p></div><div class=”mol-img-group xwArtSplitter” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>The majestic aircraft tore across the English countryside as the country said goodbye to its most famous wartime star</p></div><div class=”mol-img-group xwArtSplitter” style=”style”><div class=”splitLeft”><div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div></div><div class=”splitRight”><div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div></div><div class=”clear”></div><p class=”imageCaption”>Dame Vera Lynn’s daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones, follows her funeral cortege. Dame Vera Lynn, pictured right in her final known photograph on May 7 ahead of the 75th anniversary of VE Day, died last month</p></div><div class=”mol-img-group xwArtSplitter” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>Dame Vera Lynn’s daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones, looks to the skies after the two planes jetted over</p></div><div class=”mol-img-group xwArtSplitter” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>Service personnel including the Coldstream Guards carry the coffin of forces sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn into the Brighton Crematorium, East Sussex</p></div><div class=”mol-img-group xwArtSplitter” style=”style”><div class=”splitLeft”><div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div></div><div class=”splitRight”><div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div></div><div class=”clear”></div><p class=”imageCaption”>Zoe Ball with her boyfriend Michael Reed among the mourners watching the cortege and later wiped away tears as she watched the flypast</p></div><div class=”mol-img-group xwArtSplitter” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>Dame Vera’s coffin was covered in a Union Flag as she took her final journey to Brighton Crematorium</p></div><div class=”mol-img-group xwArtSplitter” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>Members of all the Armed Forces shepherded the hearse through the narrow of streets of Ditchling where she had lived for decades</p></div><div class=”mol-img-group xwArtSplitter” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>Members of the public line the streets as the funeral cortege of Forces Sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn passes through the village of Ditchling</p></div><div class=”moduleFull mol-video”><div><div itemprop=”video” itemscope=”itemscope” website content=”Forces’ sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn’s funeral takes place in Sussex” itemprop=”name” /><meta content=”PT01M34S” itemprop=”duration” /><meta website itemprop=”thumbnailUrl” /><meta website 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