In any case, all this "remembrance" manages to forget that the vast majority of war casualties, in most wars in the gunpowder age and afterwards, were civilians. Any real remembrance would include remembering that Britain refused refugee status to Jews (and others) fleeing from the Nazis, and specifically apply that memory to modern conditions. Yes, we allowed the Kindertransporten. But we denied refuge to their parents and grandparents.

Proper Little Madams (remember them?) sang a song about it almost 40 years ago:

Lest we forget the little children burned alive by napalm's fire,
Lest we forget the dead civilians hanging tangled in the wire,
And the faces of the women raped and shattered to the core-
It's not only men in uniform that pay the price of war,
Lest we forget.