Todd what I said was in no way designed to decry or lessen the memory of their sacrifice.

People have fought and died under various flags throughout history but that has not prevented those flags from being changed in reaction to changed political conditions. The anomaly referred to was if there was no longer any justification for keeping St Patrick's Cross on the Union Flag because there was no longer any union with part of the Island of Ireland with the United Kingdom.

Read my post again - "It is no disrespect to those who have died in wars to change a flag, and to turn your argument around what of all the Welsh blood that has been spilt in wars? Are there any cemeteries in France that purely contain the graves of Welsh soldiers and over which the flag of Wales could currently be flown?"

Some of them died at the Somme too.