Nicholas James Brown served in 2 PARA for approximately 10 years (1993 to 2003).He was Killed in Action on 26 March 2008, aged 34, during a fire-fight in Baghdad.

Nick Brown, of 22 SAS, died in a firefight with Shia fighters in Baghdad on 26 March 2008 fighting alongside US forces which had targeted the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army. He was said to have been part of a snatch squad sent to arrest a senior militia commander which ran into an ambush.