I'd like to start by paying tribute to all men and women who've lost their lives in conflict. There is a fundamental distinction between celebrating war and marking the sacrifice of individuals. It is the latter that I would wish to do. When I worked as a researcher in Westminster, I worked closely with Elfyn Llwyd and our much-missed friend, the late Harry Fletcher, on a manifesto for veterans of the armed forces. This was published in 2014, and followed years of work from our party, including establishing an all-party parliamentary group for veterans and, in January 2010, publishing a working paper with the aim of strengthening the welfare provisions for veterans.

As has been said, although the vast majority of veterans readjust to life on civvy street, a considerable minority will face difficulties with homelessness, substance abuse and a breakdown in relationships. There is no automatic signposting for help in the army debriefing process. Our manifesto called for the military covenant to include social services, for mental health assessments to be part of the debriefing procedure, as well as welfare support, including advice on housing, employment and money management, and we called for a system of veterans' courts to be established. Too many of the recommendations have still not been listened to six years later, so I'm glad to support the motion today. But I also commend the Plaid Cymru amendment to the Chamber. It says that we support the need to strive for peaceful resolutions to all conflicts.

I said at the start of my remarks that there is a distinction between supporting and thanking individuals and glorifying the conflicts in which they fought. On Armistice Day, the collective consciousness of Europe focuses on the end of a particular war, that war that was meant to end all wars. In Good-bye to All That, Robert Graves says of the armistice,

'The news sent me out walking alone along the dyke above the marshes of Rhuddlan...cursing and sobbing and thinking of the dead.'

The peace had been won, but it could not eclipse the futility of war or the senseless pity of so many dead. I'll end my remarks with an englyn by William Ambrose, or 'Emrys':