Scary, Posh, Sporty and Baby were reunited with Dame Vera Lynn - last year dubbed Old Spice after she teamed up with the band to launch the 1997 poppy appeal.

The former forces' sweetheart shared a box with the singers at London's Royal Albert Hall for the festival to remember the war dead.

The Queen led the Remembrance Festival

The Queen was accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of York, the Princess Royal and her husband Captain Timothy Lawrence.

The Prime Minister Tony Blair, Conservative leader William Hague and Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown also attended.

Servicemen and women were showered with poppies from the ceiling as they stood in silence to remember the fallen.

War deserters honoured

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Earlier on Saturday relatives of soldiers executed during World War I for cowardice or desertion honoured their loved ones in a historic ceremony at the Cenotaph.

It was the first time the relatives had been allowed to hold a remembrance ceremony at the Whitehall memorial.

Wreaths were laid in tribute to the dead

About 100 people, including supporters of the War Pardons Campaign, paid tribute to the 306 British and Commonwealth servicemen shot during the war.

At a separate event in London all 160 surviving British veterans who fought on French soil during the 1914-18 war received France's top medal, the Legion D'Honneur.