Nish Bruce

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Charles Christian Cameron "Nish" Bruce, (8 August 1956 – 8 January 2002) was a British Army soldier who served with the British Army's Parachute Regiment and Special Air Service. In the early 1980s he deployed to the Falklands War as well as Northern Ireland, taking part in Operation Banner. He was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal. In 1998, he published a memoir of his life entitled Freefall, under the pseudonym "Tom Read". After several years of psychiatric illness, Bruce killed himself, during a flight over South-Eastern England, by leaping to his death without a parachute.

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