Vera Christina Chute Collum (4 April 1883[1] – 25 February 1957), was a British journalist, suffragist, anthropologist, photographer, radiographer and writer.
Her grandfather was the South Australian John Ellis[2] Collum ran the press office of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in London in 1914.
[3] Her initial deployment was to Royaumont Abbey, the military hospital also called Hôpital Auxiliare which was set up to treat wounded French soldiers.
The French Government awarded Collum the Military Health Service honour medal in 1915 and the Croix de Guerre in 1918 for her work.
She worked with Mary Eily de Putron on the le Déhus dolmen and the Delancey Park excavations.
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.