Ross Munro

For the political scientist writing about China, see Ross H. Munro.

Canadian Press war correspondent Ross Munro typing a story in the battle area between Valguarnera and Leonforte, Italy, August 1943

Robert Ross Munro, OBE, OC (September 6, 1913 - June 21, 1990) was the Canadian Press's lead war correspondent in Europe in World War II. He covered a Canadian raid in Spitsbergen, the 1942 raid on Dieppe, the Allied landings in Sicily, the Italian campaign, D-Day and the campaign in Northwestern Europe. His memoirs of the campaigns, published as From Gauntlet to Overlord, won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 1945. He later covered the Korean War, and after retiring as a war correspondent became publisher of the Vancouver Daily Province, the Winnipeg Tribune, and the Edmonton Journal. Munro was appointed OBE in 1946 and OC in 1975.^[1]

Legacy

The Ross Munro Media Awards for Canadian military writing have been presented each year since 2002 by the Conference of Defence Associations, in concert with the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute as an award for providing exceptional media coverage of Canadian defence and security issues.^[2] The "MUNRO AWARD" (2002) by André Gauthier (sculptor) is a statuette of Canada’s World War II war correspondent Ross Munro commissioned by the Conference of Defence Associations.

References

1. David Twiston Davies. Canada from Afar: the Daily Telegraph Book of Canadian Obituaries. Dundurn Press, 1996. 187-189.
2. Ross Munro Award Dinner Presentation Comments (2002).