| McCaul | Ethel | | McCaul, Miss Ethel Rosalie Ferrier. Born in 1867, and is the second daughter of the Reverend J B McCaul, Hon Canon of Rochester Cathedral. She entered the nursing profession in 1890, being trained at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. When the Boer War broke out she offered her services and nursed in a Field Hospital with Sir Redvers Butler's column from the Battle of Colenso to the relief of Ladysmith. (RRC, QSA). She visited Japan and Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War, by command of the Queen and by permission of the Japanese Government, to inspect the working of the Japanese Red Cross Society. She was appointed lady visitor to the King Edward VII Convalescent Home for Officers of the Army and Navy, at Osborne; and founded the Union Jack Club in 1902. She is the author of an Article on Army Nursing in the XlXth Century, and Under the Care of the Japanese War Office (1904).
Source: List of recipients of the RRC | Unknown |
