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Identity
Person No.
30790
Old ROH no.
619
Service No.
70484753BT
Last Name
Irvine 9
First Name
Craig Murray
Initials
C M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1955 (±1 yr) 397
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Date of Death
28 February 1977 108
Cause code
MVA 2,631
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died from injuries received in a Military Vehicle Accident 3
Died from injuries received in a Military Vehicle Accident, at Bagani, on the Rundu Road. The recovery vehicle he was travelling in overturned, injuring him. He was evacuated to 1 Mil Hospital in Pretoria but died of his injuries
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
South African Technical Services Corps 112
Later renamed Technical Service Corps
Unit
32 Field Workshop 4
Defence Force
SADF 3,828
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,872
Locality
Gauteng 9,374
Cemetery
SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA 1,926
Grave Reference
Alternative Commemoration until grave found 1,612
Memorial
Memorial
SADF Wall of Remembrance
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Voortrekker Monument, Eeufees Road, Groenkloof, Pretoria, 0181, South Africa
Coordinates
-25.77639, 28.17583 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Part of
81 Armoured Brigade
Notes

Son of Mrs. L. E. Van Zyl, of Pretoria.

Research notes


14 Sep 2026: Pro Patria Medal added -- database-wide sweep for SADF Border War operational-area deaths within the medal's gazetted window (25 Jun 1976 - 27 Apr 2003), per the warrant's died-before-qualifying-period provision. See PersonAward.Citation for the gazette references.
14 Sep 2026: Pro Patria Medal added earlier today REVERTED -- John obtained the actual Government Gazette (GG 5171/5575); the "died before completing the qualifying period" provision relied on does not exist in the primary text (it was a secondary-source claim). Actual Rule 5 requires (a) combat/enemy-caused incident, (b) a Ministerially-acknowledged operation (clasp), or (c) 55+ continuous/90+ non-continuous days in an operational area -- none of which this record's cause of death clearly demonstrates.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Army" was CLEARED as a duplicate. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word repeating what the Branch column already says. Secondary Unit is for sub-units -- a company, a squadron, a commando -- and this record's branch of service is unchanged at "Army".

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