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Sir Alistair Irwin

President Royal British Legion Scotland Chairman of the Black Watch Museum Trust

Sir Alistair Irwin served in the British Army from 1970-2005. His last two appointments were General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland and then Adjutant General (the Army Board member responsible for personnel matters).

Sir Alistair Irwin was Vice Chairman of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission 2011 -13, having served as a Commissioner since 2005.  He has a number of honorary and voluntary appointments, amongst which are: President of the Royal British Legion Scotland, Poppy Scotland, Officers’ Association Scotland, and the Quetta Association; President (Army) Officers’ Association; Vice-President the Royal Caledonian Education Trust; Chairman of The Museum of the Black Watch.  He is an officer in the Royal Company of Archers Queen’s Body Guard for Scotland.  He lectures regularly on leadership, international relations and military affairs. He is also a published author on military theory and history and has contributed book reviews to The Spectator, War in History and the British Army Review.  His other interests include fishing, shooting and small scale farming. He is married with three grown up children and five grandchildren and lives in the heart of malt whisky country in Scotland. With a Canadian grandmother and Canadian relations who served in both world wars with the 48th Highlanders of Canada Sir Alistair Irwin is proud to be associated with this noble project.

 

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As of February 5, 2016, Parks Canada announced that it would no longer be a partner or a supporter in the Never Forgotten National Memorial, and would as well, refuse permission for its construction at the Green Cove site. While the NFNM Foundation remains as a registered charity and continues to accept donations, we would however like to make it abundantly clear, that we are not actively engaged in any and all fundraising activities, that would be specifically intended for the sole purpose of the actual construction of this very same memorial at the Green Cove, or for that matter, at any other alternative and/or suggested sites.


However, we have and will remain strongly committed to our current mandate/goal of “Keeping The Flame Alive” for the sole purpose of achieving the final successful realization of the Never Forgotten National Memorial, and with that, in the creation of Mother Canada at that very same Green Cove site, and one that will forever be in the sanctity and the protection of the Cape Breton Highlands National Park.

HONOURING (ALL) CANADIAN WAR DEAD
WHEREVER THEY MAY LIE
(AND TO DO SO ON CANADIAN SOIL)

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A warm welcome and please do take a moment to properly review the considerable amount of information that is available on this site.

A great deal of careful attention, planning and research has gone into its creation, and we sincerely hope that you will passionately agree, as we do, that there is indeed an absolutely vital need for this national memorial to be proudly built on Canadian soil.

If so, then we would greatly appreciate you taking the time to contact your local MP to clearly express your strong personal support and enthusiasm for the successful realization of the Never Forgotten National Memorial, and with that, in the patriotic creation of Mother Canada at the Green Cove site, in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.