12 Facts About Vera Collum

Vera Christina Chute Collum was born in Umballa, India in 1883 to Betty Chute Ellis and Lucius Joseph Collum.

Vera Collum came to England as a child after her father died.

Vera Collum's mother remarried but Collum never got on with her step-father, John Prosser Adams.

Vera Collum started as an orderly but was then trained as a radiographer in the new department.

Vera Collum was sent back to England for treatment and returned to her post before July 1916.

Vera Collum was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal by the British Government.

Vera Collum had experienced radiation burns on her hands and neck.

Vera Collum was elected to the Royal Anthropological Institution in London in May 1924 and was a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

Vera Collum had no formal education and declared herself a student of the world.

In 1931 Vera Collum excavated a megalithic tomb at Tresse in Brittany.

Vera Collum worked with Mary Eily de Putron on the le Dehus dolmen and the Delancey Park excavations.

Vera Collum moved to Guildford in Surrey where she was living on 25 February 1957 when she died at St Luke's Hospital in the town.