Ross Munro (journalist)

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.

[1] His memoirs of the campaigns, published as From Gauntlet to Overlord, won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 1945.

[2] Ross married a physiotherapist from the Canadian Army, Helen Marie Stevens, while overseas in 1943.

[1] 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.

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