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Ben Roberts-Smith reveals new girlfriend at Magic Millions Casey Nixon and Dan Keighran got engaged at Magic Millions Raceday. Daniel joined the Australian Army in … “There was no way I was staying on the farm, I knew that much, but I didn’t know what else to do.”, “I was really lucky to have someone I looked up to, and that was my Grandfather. “The Army deemed that because of my actions that day that none of our guys were killed, and I didn’t get killed somehow and I was awarded the Victoria Cross for it.”. In a nutshell, Dan repeatedly exposed himself to sustained machine gun and small arms fire to help direct the return fire from his soldiers, and to keep the bullets away from his mates while they treated a fellow soldier who had been wounded. Daniel Keighran, VC was born in Nambour, and grew up in Lowmead; a small town approximately 80km from Bundaberg in regional Queensland. Keighran was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions while serving with the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment in a fire fight with insurgents during the Battle of Derapet on 24 August 2010, an action of Operation Slipper. “I was consulting back to the defence industry,” he says. He deployed to Malaysia, East Timor, Iraq and twice to Afghanistan. Daniel Alan Keighran VC (born 18 June 1983) is an Australian soldier and a recipient of the Victoria Cross for Australia, the highest award in the Australian honours system. Growing up was tough for Daniel. He stayed there with his mother and older sister until he was 5, then moved not too far away to a suburb called Maleny. “That was tough,” Dan says as he recounts the move. Get to know him here. His actions saw him awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia, making him the 99th Australian to receive our country's highest award for bravery. His actions saw him awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia, making him the 99th Australian to receive our country's highest award for bravery. And humble in the face of an honour bestowed.'. Dame Quentin Bryce On 24 August 2010, in battle in Afghanistan, Corporal Daniel Keighran risked his life in a hail of gunfire to save his fellow soldiers. When he was eleven, his father showed up in his life, for the first time, with a gunshot wound to the stomach. On 24 August 2010, in battle in Afghanistan, Corporal Daniel Keighran risked his life in a hail of gunfire to save his fellow soldiers. It took a long time for me to adjust to life like that. He relocated his son, daughter and their mother 400 kilometres away from their loving grandparents and a coastal home to … “It was a rough upbringing for a kid for sure,” he says. Daniel Alan Keighran (1983-) was born in Nambour, in the Sunshine Coast hinterland region of Queensland, on 18th June 1983. “Because of that and a few other projects I need to close down I’m doing two days per week with Thales at the moment, but I’ll be full time in January next year,” he says. Daniel Keighran with his mother Judith at Enoggera Barracks after his leaving parade for Afghanistan in 2010. Dame Quentin Bryce. At age eleven, he moved with his family to Lowmead, living on a forty-acre property. Thales provides stability for us and it also provides flexibility, and that’s really important for any business. His gallantry and willingness to put his life on the line is an inspiration to every other man and woman in uniform and to the wider Australian community. “My mum’s parents were there and I … I’m just really lucky that I somehow managed to make it through.”. I was also on the speaking circuit and I’m on the Board for the Australian War Memorial, so I kept busy.”. Daniel Keighran, VC was born in Nambour, and grew up in Lowmead; a small town approximately 80km from Bundaberg in regional Queensland. He relocated his son, daughter and their mother 400 kilometres away from their loving grandparents and a coastal home to … To top it all off, Dan is currently doing his Executive Masters in Business Administration and is set to finish at the end of the year. Although Dan has condensed the story into something akin to taking a Sunday stroll, in fact, what he did was anything but ordinary. “I should be dead,” he says matter-of-factly. I’m ok now, but for the first few years after it I was a bit lost on how to deal with it.”. His upbringing was anything but normal; Dan describes it as ‘pretty rough’, with a loving mother but an absent father challenging his teen years and where his one male constant was his Grandfather- himself a World War II veteran. Mr Keighran then asked his mother-in-law to take a photo of the couple before he bent down on one knee. Courage Under Fire is an outstanding military memoir, packed with tales of multiple tours, accounts of extraordinary camaraderie, and a reflection on the unseen cost of service. [7], Keighran now serves in the Australian Army Reserve attached to 11th/28th Battalion, Royal Western Australia Regiment. CORPORAL Daniel Keighran is the 99th Australian to be awarded the military's highest honour, the Victoria Cross. A revealing and frank memoir from Daniel Keighran, an unlikely candidate to receive the Victoria Cross. ", with ribbon for active service with Operation CITADEL in Timor Leste (UNMISET). Keighran was awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia for his actions in the Battle of Derapet on 24 August 2010, during the War in Afghanistan. During the battle, Keighran "with complete disregard for his own safety" repeatedly exposed himself to enemy fire to draw fire away from a team treating a battle casualty (Keighran's friend Lance Corporal Jared MacKinney). I had to run 6km to school and back each day until I went to high school at Rosedale which is about a 35 minute bus ride.”. “We were doing a village clearance, a Key Leader Engagement job and we got bumped by a whole lot of guys,” he says casually. “I did some work for Australian Defence Apparel (ADA) in their R&D department and then I became an Ambassador for them for around four years. After reading the details of his actions in the full citation, it is incredible that Dan is here to tell the tale. Keighran (pronounced: KEAR-ran) was born in Nambour, in the Sunshine Coast hinterland region of Queensland, on 18 June 1983. He was definitely a father figure for me growing up.”. Growing up was tough for Daniel. [2][3], Keighran was born in Nambour, in the Sunshine Coast hinterland region of Queensland, in 1983. That was a full on day.”. At age eleven, he moved with his family to Lowmead, living on a forty-acre property. He deployed to Malaysia, East Timor, Iraq and twice to Afghanistan. Making mistakes is fine, it’s part of life and growing. The Victoria Cross awarded to Corporal Keighran was the first gained by the Royal Australian Regiment in its long and distinguished fighting history. Growing up was tough for Daniel. “I can’t really describe what that’s like,” he laughs. “I have a two and a half year old son and I really wanted some stability in my life for him. “No, not at all,” he says. “So, in Iraq I was driving a Bushmaster around, and same thing in Afghanistan in 2007 as part of the Special Operations Task Group. I think maybe because of my upbringing I was used to early mornings, late nights and hard work, so I managed to fit in really quickly. Prior to Afghanistan, he had served in East Timor and Iraq. Dan has had to retell this story countless times, so he is quite understated about the whole thing. Keighran was born in Nambour, in the Sunshine Coast hinterland region of Queensland, in 1983. [7] I could see the bullets strike the ground in front of me and behind me, and I could hear them fly past my head. “We had nothing there, sleeping on dirt floors, no power or anything like that until they established the farm. Daniel Keighran is Australia's 99th Victoria Cross Recipient. I was just lucky I guess. His civilian career is in the mining industry in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Growing up was tough for Daniel. His family lived on a "forty-acre block" where his parents bred paint horses. I was lean and seriously fit and no stranger to hard work from a young age.”. Daniel Alan Keighran was born in Nambour, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. Sure my role will mean travel, but nothing like what I have been doing. Just learn from them. But as Keighran discovers at a nightclub in Seymour, Victoria, it can get a soldier into sticky situations. Last month Keighran got down on one knee at the Magic Millions Raceday on the Gold Coast in front of both of their children – his son Jack, four, and Nixon’s daughter Isabelle, three. Towards the end of his schooling, Dan began searching for work opportunities. He stayed there with his mother and older sister until he was 5, then moved not too far away to a suburb called Maleny. As you can imagine, my final results suffered because of it. He was presented with the medal by the Governor-General of Australia, Quentin Bryce, in a ceremony in Canberra on 1 November 2012. His upbringing was anything but normal; Dan describes it as ‘pretty rough’, with a loving mother but an absent father challenging his teen years and where his one male constant was his Grandfather- himself a World War II veteran. “I followed that advice and it worked for me for years.”. Keighran attended school in nearby Rosedaleand graduated … Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, Australian military personnel of the Iraq War, Australian military personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2014), Australian recipients of the Victoria Cross, 11th/28th Battalion, Royal Western Australia Regiment, NATO Medal for the Non-Article 5 ISAF Operation in Afghanistan, "Soldier honoured with Victoria Cross medal", http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/soldier-honoured-with-victoria-cross-medal-20121101-28lla.html, http://www.army.gov.au/Our-work/News-and-media/Australian-Soldier-Honoured-with-Victoria-Cross, http://www.army.gov.au/Our-work/News-and-media/Australian-Soldier-Honoured-with-Victoria-Cross/Corporal-Daniel-Alan-Keighran, http://www.defence.gov.au/special_events/keighran/, "Victoria Cross recipient Corporal Daniel Keighran a quiet achiever at school", http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/victoria-cross-winner-corporal-daniel-keighran-a-quiet-achiever-at-school/story-e6frg6n6-1226509462550, "RAR soldier awarded Victoria Cross for Afghan valour", http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-01/rar-soldier-awarded-victoria-cross-for-afghan-valour/4345848#citation, "Corporal Daniel Keighran wins Victoria Cross for Afghanistan courage", http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/g-g-to-award-new-victoria-cross/story-e6frg6n6-1226508058450, "Kalgoorlie miner and VC recipient Daniel Keighran is 'a humble bloke,' workmates say", http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/kalgoorlie-miner-daniel-keighran-receives-nations-highest-military-honour/story-e6frg6n6-1226509872088, "Keighran VC presents Victoria Cross to Memorial", http://www.defence.gov.au/defencenews/stories/2012/dec/1204.htm, "Presentation of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal to Corporal Daniel Keighran VC", http://www.gg.gov.au/events/presentation-queens-diamond-jubilee-medal-corporal-daniel-keighran-vc, Copyright photos of Keighran and his wife, https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Daniel_Keighran?oldid=4310379, "For the most conspicuous acts of gallantry and extreme devotion to duty in action in circumstances of great peril at Derapet, Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan, as part of the Mentoring Task Force One on Operation SLIPPER” on 24 August 2010. Daniel joined the Australian Army in 2000. “With my experience with PMVs and the land battle space, Thales was an easy and natural fit.”, Know your personal ethos and core values – don’t be afraid to stand up for what you believe in. “I was still a Reservist, but I was doing some underground blasting in the mines and I got this phone call from the Chief saying he was about to board his jet and was on his way out to see me at Kalgoorlie,” he smiles. Daniel Keighran, VC was born in Nambour, and grew up in Lowmead; a small town approximately 80km from Bundaberg in regional Queensland. After service in East Timor and Iraq, he first went to Afghanistan in 2007. A man selfless in the face of threat. [9] Keighran from 2001 until 2011 wore the Presidential Unit Citation awarded by the United States. Keighran's actions were key in allowing the Coalition forces to withdraw without further casualties. Courageous in the face of terror. His actions saw him awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia, making him the 99th Australian to receive our country's highest award for bravery. Growing up was tough for Daniel. His actions saw him awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia, making him the 99th Australian to receive our country's highest award for bravery. “You go from staying away from the media to that! His mother also taught dressage, and his father occasionally organised rodeo events. 'Daniel Keighran would say that he was an ordinary man, just a soldier doing his job. Daniel Keighran VC was born in 1983 in Nambour, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Shortly after the investiture Dan left the mines and started his own consultancy company. Daniel Keighran VC was born in 1983 in Nambour, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. “In 2010 I deployed again to Afghanistan with the vehicles, but half way through the trip I went dismounted, so doing normal infantry stuff again and also working as a mentor for the Afghan National Army. In 2011 Dan discharged from the Army and began working in the mines at Kalgoorlie, in Western Australia. You never wanted to stand out,” he laughs. It’s easy to get stuck in your day-in day-out routine, but get out there and experience new things. You never know where it could lead you. [6] I was the youngest guy there. A war hero who revealed his bravery overseas cost him his first marriage has found new love and proposed to his girlfriend. Courage Under Fire (Book) : Keighran, Daniel : On 24 August 2010, in battle in Afghanistan, Corporal Daniel Keighran risked his life in a hail of gunfire to save his fellow soldiers. [5] Keighran attended school in nearby Rosedale and graduated from high school in 2000. He spent his early years with his mother and his older sister Susan at Maleny on the Sunshine Coast where he … When Keighran was in Year 5, he moved with his family to Lowmead, approximately 80 kilometres (50 mi) north west of the Queensland regional city of Bundaberg. From the occasional chaos and sometimes drama, of his upbringing, in the Army he became remarkable. ... with a gunshot wound to the stomach. [4] If the name sounds familiar it’s no surprise. He relocated his son, daughter and their mother 400 kilometres away from their loving grandparents and a coastal home to … Without thinking, I wheeled Benny-B around and drove my heels hard and sharp into the pony’s flanks. Don’t be afraid to try new things. At age eleven, he moved with his family to Lowmead, living on a forty-acre property. Gone were Dan’s days of blending in as he was thrust into the spotlight, on every TV news channel, print and digital newspaper and social media. When he was eleven, his father showed up in his life, for the first time, with a gunshot wound to the stomach. and the first member of the Royal Australian Regiment so awarded. On 24 August 2010, in battle in Afghanistan, Corporal Daniel Keighran risked his life in a hail of gunfire to save his fellow soldiers. Daniel Alan Keighran was born in Nambour, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. That really worked for me. He was promoted to Corporal within the same unit in 2009. On August 24 2010 Dan’s time as the “grey man” would come to an abrupt end after a joint Australian and Afghan patrol in a village called Derapet in the Uruzgan province. He relocated his son, daughter and their mother 400 kilometres away from their loving grandparents and a coastal home to … At age eleven, he moved with his family to Lowmead, living on a forty-acre property. When Keighran was in Year 5, he moved with his family to Lowmead, approximately 80 kilometres (50 mi) north west of the Queensland regional city of Bundaberg. “I mean I’m still doing talks on the circuit, so I’ll go into various organisations and talk to them about leadership, teamwork, making decisions in high pressure environments, the importance of personal ethos and core values and things like that. So I talk about it a lot, but I don’t think about it apart from that.”. “My mum’s parents were there and I really looked up to my Grandfather. So, I applied, did all the testing and had been approved part way through Year 12. [N 1], Prior to 1975, Australians were awarded the "imperial". “It may sound like fun because I learned to shoot, ride, I’d take some of the dogs with me and stay out overnight on the property, but it was a hard living. “It was good being on the coast as a kid,” he says. [5] His family lived on a "forty-acre block" where his parents bred paint horses. His VC citation reads: “For the most conspicuous acts of gallantry and extreme devotion to duty in action in circumstances of great peril at Derapet, Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, as part of the Mentoring Task Force One on Operation SLIPPER.”. Stewart, Cameron; Packham, Ben (1 November 2012). “I got some great advice before I joined – be the grey man. Dan has been in the media spotlight since late 2012 when he was awarded the highest honour achievable from the Australian Defence Force – the Victoria Cross. That’s when the action that I was awarded the VC happened.”. By then I was a Commander, so I really specialised in the PMVs. He relocated his son, daughter and their mother 400 kilometres away from their loving grandparents and a coastal home to … He relocated his son, daughter and their mother 400 kilometres away from their loving grandparents and a coastal home to … When he was eleven, his father showed up in his life, for the first time, with a gunshot wound to the stomach. "I look at him, he was my father figure realistically, he was my hero," Mr Keighran said. Daniel joined the Australian Army in 2000. When Keighran was in Year 5, he moved with his family to Lowmead, approximately 80 kilometres (50 mi) north west of the Queensland regional city of Bundaberg. “It was good being on the coast as a kid,” he says. When he was eleven, his father showed up in his life, for the first time, with a gunshot wound to the stomach. And there’s mateship, the glue Defence relies upon. 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".[5]. “I say that all the time, and I mean it. Daniel Keighran VC was born in 1983 in Nambour, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Anyway, it turned out to be about the VC. His mother also taught dressage, and his father occasionally organised rodeo events. He deployed to Malaysia, East Timor, Iraq and twice to Afghanistan. He relocated his son, daughter and their mother 400 kilometres away from their loving grandparents and a coastal home to a shack with a dirt floor in outback Queensland. He was an Artillery Sergeant in the Second World War and after speaking with him about it, he motivated me to join the Defence Force. “I did my Initial Employment Training as a Rifleman, then got posted to 6th Royal Australian Regiment [6RAR] in Brisbane, and I was still only 17. His upbringing was anything but normal; Dan describes it as ‘pretty rough’, with a loving mother but an absent father challenging his teen years and where his one male constant was his Grandfather- himself a World War II veteran. Mr Keighran credits his mother Judy and her father Alan Pyeburne, a World War II veteran, for making him the man he would become. Daniel joined the Australian Army in 2000. Growing up was tough for Daniel. “He didn’t tell me why or anything like that, so as you can imagine my mind was racing trying to figure out what I’d done. Born in Nambour, Queensland, in 1983, Keighran joined the regiment in 2001. A supreme test of the principle of living according to what he represented was his instant recognition that his mother was in danger from a massive bull and that he had to effect a rescue. [8], Corporal Keighran's Victoria Cross and accompanying medal group are on loan to the Australian War Memorial and will be on display in the Hall of Valour from early 2013. Then, on the 1st of November 2012 I was officially presented with the Victoria Cross. A humble man who describes himself as a classic introvert, Daniel Keighran was born in Nambour, Queensland, in June 1983, the youngest child of Judith and Ian Keighran. “Let’s be honest here, employment opportunities up there in rural Queensland are just non-existent,” he notes. Dan’s Grandfather had advised him to join the Infantry as a Rifleman, so after Kapooka he went straight to Singleton in New South Wales to the School of Infantry. Dan’s parents began breeding horses and cattle on the farm, and as he recalls it, working there before and after school was tough. Keighran joined the Australian Army in 2000. His family lived on a "forty-acre block" where his parents bred paint horses. If you make the same mistake three times then maybe you should stop doing what you’re doing? Although just 17, Daniel adapted quickly to the demands of life in the military, always willing to learn, always wanting to grow, always seeking to emulate the example of his grandfather. Our newest Close Combat Advisor has been the lead story of every major news channel and newspaper in the country. Daniel Keighran, VC was born in Nambour, and grew up in Lowmead; a small town approximately 80km from Bundaberg in regional Queensland. 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