14/11/2026
In today's Members' eNews, we announce the first of our 120th Anniversary plans for 2027 - a beautiful life size statue to honour and remember the Union jack Club's inspirational and visionary founder, Miss Ethel McCaul. Pictured here (original left, AI enhanced middle), serving at a field hospital during the Boer War, and also the sculpture (right) which will be cast in the new year. Famous in her day, she was then known as ‘The Second Lady of the Lamp’. Today, however, the story of this incredible Edwardian woman, military nurse and campaigner on behalf of ‘other ranks’ has been all but lost, and over the coming year we plan to tell more - there may even be a book! Miss McCaul founded this Club in 1907, for serving and veteran enlisted Members of His Majesty's Armed Forces, and today we are proud to be thriving as her legacy and our Members' London 'home from home - join us if you can!