NSW SES volunteer Shannon Crofton has received an Emergency Services Medal in this years Australia Day honours.
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He joined the SES Sutherland unit in 1989 before moving to the NSW SES Sydney Southern Region Unit in 2009 as a flood rescue officer.
It isn’t the first time he has been recognised. He was the recipient of a 2011 Churchill Fellowship, where he toured the USA and Canada to research the use of helicopters in flood rescues.
In 2012 he was awarded the Higgins and Langley Memorial Award for outstanding achievement in swift water rescue.
It was the first time this prestigious award had been presented to someone outside the United States.
He was also named NSW Emergency Services Volunteer Officer of the Year in 2015.
It’s not his only experience with the emergency service; he is also a firefighter at Hurstville.
