Mary Eily de Putron (1914–1982) was an Irish and Guernsey stained glass artist and archaeologist who also served in the WAAF during World War II.

They spent the early years of their marriage in Ireland and only moved to the Channel Islands when Colonel de Putron retired from the army.

[1][2] After school de Putron became an archaeological assistant and worked with Vera Collum on the Le Déhus dolmen and the Delancey Park excavations in Guernsey, Mortimer Wheeler and Tessa Verney at Verulamium, the Roman site in Hertfordshire.

She had first worked in Dublin on the Islandbridge dig where items were exposed during the building of the Irish National War Memorial Gardens there.

She continued to work on digs in Ireland such as Poulawack Cairn, the stone cashel at Cahercommaun[3] and the crannogs in Offaly, Westmeath and County Meath with Joseph Raftery on the Harvard Archaeological Expedition.

[1][4][5][6][7][8] With the start of World War II in 1939 de Putron returned initially home and then went to England where she joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in the Administrative and Special Duties Branch.

She was co-opted to the sub-committee of the National Trust of Guernsey due to her experience in archaeology and helping of Charles Brett and the survey of buildings in 1975.

She wrote for the local journals - She published the diary of her great-uncle, the Reverend Pierre de Putron in the Review of the Guernsey Society, author of an illustrated book on archaeology in Sussex, an article on the life and work of Joan Howson in the Journal of Stained Glass and, for the Transactions of La Société Guernesiaise, the obituary of Thomas Downing Kendrick, Director of the British Museum.