Daniel Keighran

Daniel Alan Keighran, VC , is an Australian soldier and a recipient of the Victoria Cross for Australia, the highest award in the Australian honours system. Keighran was awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia for his actions in the Battle of Derapet onAugust 2010, during the War in Afghanistan. He was presented with the medal by the GovernorGeneral of Australia, Quentin Bryce, in a ceremony in Canberra onNovember 2012. Keighran is the third soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia and the first member of the Royal Australian Regiment so awarded.

Keighran was born in Nambour, in the Sunshine Coast hinterland region of Queensland, in 1983. When Keighran was in Year 5, he moved with his family to Lowmead, approximately 80 kilometres north west of the Queensland regional city of Bundaberg. His family lived on a fortyacre block where his parents bred paint horses. His mother also taught dressage, and his father occasionally organised rodeo events. Keighran attended school in nearby Rosedale and graduated from high school in 2000. That year Keighran was a torchbearer for the 2000 Summer Olympics torch parade and received a Pierre de Coubertin Award in recognition of his Olympic spirit.

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