English: I'm grateful for the chance to speak in this debate and I wish to start by welcoming the first world war commemoration programme for Wales that's been developed by the Welsh Government in partnership with key organisations, including the Royal British Legion and the armed forces themselves. We've already seen and continue to see a range of commemorations taking place to mark both the outbreak of the war and the significant battles that took place. In April last year, I was privileged to attend a commemoration at Whitehall to mark 100 years since the Gallipoli campaign, after my mum responded to a media notification advising that surviving relatives could attend to pay their respects. We applied and went to Whitehall to remember James Brockley, my great great uncle who was killed in action on 9 August 1915. His brother Jack was in the same battalion; he was injured when he found out the fate of his brother. There are a great many initiatives and community events happening across the country to commemorate the centenary of the first world war, and I - [Interruption.] I intend to make the most of this opportunity to share with Members a fantastic initiative based in north-east Wales. In my own constituency of Delyn, Viv and Eifion Williams have established Flintshire Memorials, or 'Names on Stone' as it's better known on Twitter. Flintshirewarmemorials.com is a community website staffed by volunteers - around 24 in total at the moment - and each volunteer takes a memorial in Flintshire to research; 'Flintshire' that is, as it was defined at the end of world war one. The researchers find out what they can using various sources - local, national and international - and family members of the researched servicemen have to contact the organisation to share more information, and photos, letters and so on then get added to the servicemen's story. Flintshire Memorials has gone from strength to strength after receiving a lottery grant of £10,000 in 2015 to develop the project and has since organised study trips to France and Flanders in April over the last two years, and is reaching out to the community to give talks and tell the stories of the servicemen to local groups, ranging from the Women's Institute to rotary clubs, and, importantly, to schools. As we take time to remember those who served in world war one during the centenary commemorations, let us also recognise volunteers and organisations like Flintshire Memorials who are doing sterling work reminding us of those who served and fell in our own communities across Wales. Diolch.
Welsh: Rwy'n falch o'r cyfle i siarad yn y ddadl hon ac rwyf am ddechrau drwy groesawu rhaglen goffa'r Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf ar gyfer Cymru a ddatblygwyd gan Lywodraeth Cymru mewn partneriaeth â sefydliadau allweddol, gan gynnwys y Lleng Brydeinig Frenhinol a'r lluoedd arfog eu hunain. Rydym eisoes wedi gweld ac yn parhau i weld amrywiaeth o ddigwyddiadau coffa i nodi dechrau'r rhyfel a'r brwydrau arwyddocaol a ddigwyddodd. Ym mis Ebrill y llynedd, cefais y fraint o fynychu digwyddiad coffa yn Whitehall i nodi 100 mlynedd ers brwydr Gallipoli, wedi i fy mam ymateb i hysbysiad ar y cyfryngau yn rhoi gwybod y gallai perthnasau sy'n dal yn fyw fynychu er mwyn rhoi eu teyrngedau. Gwnaethom gais ac aethom i Whitehall i gofio James Brockley, fy hen hen ewythr a laddwyd ar faes y gad ar 9 Awst 1915. Roedd ei frawd Jac yn yr un fataliwn; cafodd ei anafu pan glywodd am dynged ei frawd. Mae yna nifer fawr o fentrau a digwyddiadau cymunedol yn digwydd ar draws y wlad i goffáu canmlwyddiant y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf, ac rwy'n - [Torri ar draws.] Rwy'n bwriadu manteisio ar y cyfle hwn i sôn wrth yr Aelodau am fenter wych yng ngogledd-ddwyrain Cymru. Yn fy etholaeth i, sef Delyn, mae Viv ac Eifion Williams wedi sefydlu Cofebion Rhyfel Sir y Fflint, neu 'Names on Stone' fel y mae'n fwy adnabyddus ar Twitter. Gwefan gymunedol wedi'i staffio gan wirfoddolwyr yw Flintshirewarmemorials.com - tua 24 i gyd ar hyn o bryd - ac mae pob gwirfoddolwr yn ymchwilio i gofeb wahanol yn Sir y Fflint; 'Sir y Fflint', hynny yw, fel y câi ei diffinio ar ddiwedd y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf. Mae'r ymchwilwyr yn darganfod yr hyn a allant drwy ddefnyddio ffynonellau amrywiol - yn lleol, yn genedlaethol ac yn rhyngwladol - a rhaid i aelodau o deuluoedd yr aelodau o'r lluoedd arfog sy'n destun yr ymchwil gysylltu â'r sefydliad er mwyn rhannu mwy o wybodaeth, lluniau, llythyrau ac yn y blaen, sydd wedyn yn cael eu hychwanegu at stori'r milwr. Mae Cofebion Rhyfel Sir y Fflint wedi mynd o nerth i nerth ar ôl derbyn grant loteri o £10,000 yn 2015 i ddatblygu'r prosiect ac ers hynny mae wedi trefnu teithiau astudio i Ffrainc a Fflandrys ym mis Ebrill yn ystod y ddwy flynedd ddiwethaf, ac mae'n estyn allan i'r gymuned i roi sgyrsiau ac adrodd straeon y milwyr wrth grwpiau lleol, yn amrywio o Sefydliad y Merched i glybiau rotari, ac yn bwysig, i ysgolion. Wrth i ni roi amser i gofio am y rhai a fu'n gwasanaethu yn y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf yn ystod y digwyddiadau canmlwyddiant, gadewch i ni hefyd gydnabod gwirfoddolwyr a sefydliadau fel Cofebion Rhyfel Sir y Fflint sy'n gwneud gwaith rhagorol yn ein hatgoffa am y rhai a wasanaethodd ac a syrthiodd yn ein cymunedau ar draws Cymru. Diolch.