About: Nish Bruce

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Charles Christian Cameron "Nish" Bruce, QGM (8 August 1956 – 8 January 2002) was a British Army soldier. Bruce served with the British Army's Parachute Regiment and Special Air Service. He deployed during the Falklands War and as part of Operation Banner to Northern Ireland in the early 1980s, where 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 by leaping without a parachute to his death from an aeroplane during a flight over South-Eastern England.

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  • Charles Christian Cameron "Nish" Bruce, QGM (8 August 1956 – 8 January 2002) was a British Army soldier. Bruce served with the British Army's Parachute Regiment and Special Air Service. He deployed during the Falklands War and as part of Operation Banner to Northern Ireland in the early 1980s, where 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 by leaping without a parachute to his death from an aeroplane during a flight over South-Eastern England. (en)
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  • Fyfield, Oxfordshire (en)
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  • The Red Devils (Parachute Regiment) (en)
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  • Charles Christian Cameron "Nish" Bruce, QGM (8 August 1956 – 8 January 2002) was a British Army soldier. Bruce served with the British Army's Parachute Regiment and Special Air Service. He deployed during the Falklands War and as part of Operation Banner to Northern Ireland in the early 1980s, where 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 by leaping without a parachute to his death from an aeroplane during a flight over South-Eastern England. (en)
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