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For the Scottish footballer, see Ross Munro (footballer).
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. He was the first Allied journalist to report on the Landings on D Day in 1944.[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. 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.[2]

Ross married a physiotherapist from the Canadian Army, Helen Marie Stevens, while overseas in 1943. Together, they had one daughter.[1]

Legacy

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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.[3] The "MUNRO AWARD" (2002) by André Gauthier is a statuette of Munro commissioned by the Conference of Defence Associations.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Ross Munro". Canada in the Second World War - Witnesses to History. Juno Beach Centre. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  2. ^ David Twiston Davies. Canada from Afar: the Daily Telegraph Book of Canadian Obituaries. Dundurn Press, 1996. 187-189.
  3. ^ Ross Munro Award Dinner Presentation Comments (2002).
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Munro_(journalist)

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