Nish Bruce
Charles Bruce | |
|---|---|
| Other name(s) | Tom Read |
| Nickname(s) | "Nish" |
| Born | 8 August 1956 Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire |
| Died | 8 January 2002 (aged 45) Fyfield, Oxfordshire |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Branch | British Army |
| Years of service | 1973–1988 |
| Rank | Sergeant |
| Service number | 24329999 |
| Unit | 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment (1973–78) The Red Devils (Parachute Regiment) (1978–82) 22 Special Air Service (1982–88) |
| Battles / wars | The Troubles Falklands War |
| Awards | Queen's Gallantry Medal |
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, during a flight over South-Eastern England, by leaping to his death without a parachute.