Ronald Monro

Ronald Keith Monro (1907 – 4 July 1945) was an Australian nature photographer. The Adelaide News called him "one of Australia's most gifted photographers of wild life."

Biography Monro was born in 1907 in Western Australia where he worked as photographer for the Daily News in Perth before moving to Caulfield, Melbourne in 1933. He worked as a photographer for the Herald and the Sun News-Pictorial. In 1940, he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force, and in the Middle East he was appointed as official photographer of the 1st Australian Corps. Later, he ran the Melbourne military history unit's photography section. but led to the relocation of 1,308 of those animals.

Monro became ill and died suddenly in Heidelberg, Melbourne on 4 July 1945, survived by his wife and son. A collection of his photography, Australian Nature Stories, was posthumously published by Robertson and Mullens that year. The West Australian praised the collection as "beautifully presented ... 'Ron' was something more than just a good photographer."