Untold tale of VC hero What army doesn’t want you to know
almost 5 years in cairnspost
If he hadn’t escaped to the army, chances are Daniel Keighran – Victoria Cross recipient, shoulder-rubber with the powerful, meeter of the Queen – would be a dope grower. He’d be on a bush property in central Queensland, tending cannabis sativa plants, just as he did as a boy under the rough and loveless tutelage of his father. The man he called Cowboy.