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Identity
Person No.
32771
Old ROH no.
1243
Service No.
73310724BT
Last Name
Ruthven 1
First Name
Glen Stuart
Initials
G S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1957 (±1 yr) 431
Age at Death
28
Death Record
Date of Death
16 September 1985 111
Cause code
MVA 2,635
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in motor vehicle accident 1,764
Died in Military Vehicle Accident, when Buffel APC overturned on Black River Parkway, Cape Town
Military Service
Branch
Medical Health
Rank
Lance Corporal
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
South African Medical Corps 536
Unit
3 Medical Battalion Group 3
Defence Force
SADF 3,838
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,873
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
Notes

Husband of Mrs. B. J. Ruthven

Research notes


Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 16 Sep 2026: 73310724BT Lance Corporal Glen Stuart Ruthven, 3 Medical Battalion Group, killed when his Buffel Troop Carrier overturned on Black River Parkway, Cape Town, age 28. Exact match.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Army" was CLEARED. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word, and it CONTRADICTED this record's own Branch, "Medical Health". Across the roll 787 records carried such a contradiction; judged against Corps and Regiment -- independent of both columns -- the evidence backed Branch 744 times and Unit2 not once. Branch is therefore kept and the contradicting word removed. Nothing is guessed: this man's branch of service is already recorded, and his sub-unit, if any, is simply not known.

Citations
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External References
Stories 2
on 07 September 2007 · via source
As far as I know L/Cpl Ruthven was killed when a Buffel overturned on the Black River Parkway in Cape Town. We were doing township duty in and around Cape Town at the time. As far as I am concerned this death took place in the RSA and not in Namibia
by Graham Du Toit on 16 September 2014 · via source
16 Sep 1985: 73310724BT Lance Corporal Glen Stuart Ruthven from 3 Medical Battalion Group was killed when the Buffel Troop Carrier in which he was traveling overturned at Maitland. He was 28.
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