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Poppy Appeal preview for soldiers
Tori White performing at Headley Court (picture from Tori White/MBop Digital)
The teenage singer performed for injured military personnel
A 19-year-old singer has performed the ballad being sold to raise money for this year's Poppy Appeal to injured servicemen and women in Surrey.

Tori White's performance of Please Remember at Headley Court was a preview ahead of this weekend's Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall.

Her audience at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre gave it an enthusiastic welcome.

She sang after the morning warm-up, which patients and staff do every day.

Too many people forget that the Poppy Appeal isn't just about World War II
Pte Matt Woollard

Pte Matt Woollard of 1 Royal Anglian, a 19-year-old who lost a leg when he stepped on a landmine in Afghanistan, said: "It's an amazing song. I really like it."

He said: "We are planning a memorial video for the boys we lost in Afghanistan and I've just been asking Tori if I can use her single as the background music.

"I think a pop song is great.

"Too many people forget that the Poppy Appeal isn't just about World War II."

Many of the military personnel at Headley Court are recovering from burns, head injuries and amputations.

Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre in Surrey
Many soldiers are recovering from burns, injuries and amputations

Please Remember is Miss White's second single.

BBC producers heard it as a track on her debut album and selected it for this year's Festival of Remembrance, which is being broadcast on Saturday.

Fifty pence from the sale and download of every copy of the single is being donated to the Poppy Appeal.

Miss White, a Vocaltech music academy graduate whose voice caught the ear of producer and former pop star Jim Dooley, said: "I think the song is really going to raise awareness about the appeal among young people.

"I feel really honoured to sing it."

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