Nish Bruce, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nish Bruce

British soldier

Date of Birth: 08-Aug-1956

Place of Birth: Chipping Norton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 08-Jan-2002

Profession: military personnel, autobiographer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Charles Christian Cameron "Nish" Bruce QGM (8 August 1956 – 8 January 2002) was a British Army soldier.He served with the British Army's Parachute Regiment, and Special Air Service Regiment during the Falklands War, and in Operation Banner in 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 being afflicted with psychiatric illness for several years, Bruce committed suicide by leaping without a parachute to his death from an aeroplane during a flight over South-Eastern England.