Brenton Beach
Staff Sergeant Brenton Beach, Royal NZ Infantry Regiment, of Waiouru, received the Distinguished Service Decoration for services to the New Zealand Defence Force on 1 April 2008. SS Beach, pictured with Governor-General and Mrs Susan Satyanand, has held appointments as Senior Custodian and Corporate Services Manager at the Army Museum. Since joining the Museum in 1998, he has developed into one of New Zealand’s leading oral history interviewers.