Ross Munro, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Ross Munro

war correspondent

Date of Birth: 06-Sep-1913

Date of Death: 21-Jun-1990

Profession: war correspondent, journalist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

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.