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Identity
Person No.
31630
Old ROH no.
903
Service No.
68444918N
Last Name
Marriott 6
First Name
Richard Neville
Initials
R N
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1953 (±1 yr) 317
Age at Death
17
Death Record
Date of Death
13 September 1970 120
Cause code
MVA 2,660
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in motor vehicle accident 1,764
Died in Military Vehicle Accident, while being transported in a Gladiator Troop Carrier back to Ladysmith Army Camp. Their vehicle was involved in a head-on collision with a Newspaper Delivery Van between Colesburg and Philippolis and the vehicle immediately burst into flames with the men still trapped inside and unable to escape
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
5 South African Infantry Battalion 98
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,874
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,879
Locality
Gauteng 9,374
Cemetery
SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA 1,926
Grave Reference
Panel 02 19
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
Panel 2
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Part of
Infantry Formation (SAAIF) — Motorised Infantry — Regular
Notes

Son of Mrs. W. E. Marriott, of Durban. Attended Glenwood High School, Durban from 1965-1969.

Research notes


Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 13 Sep 2026 / Bushwar Books Lest We Forget 13 September (https://www.warbooks.co.za/posts/lest-we-forget-13-september/ 68444918N Rifleman Richard Neville Marriott, 5 SAI, same Gladiator MVA, age 17. Exact match.
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".

Citations
Unknown
External References
Stories 3
on 30 May 2001 · via source
Richard Neville Marriott [born 22/11/1952] attended Glenwood High School, Durban from 1965-1969. He was killed, together with John Grinyer, Peter Leonhardt, Gregory George Olyott, Kevin Mack, Mark Felice Vallero and Hylton Dudley Coker when their army vehicle collided head-on with a newspaper delivery van somewhere between Colesberg and Philippolis, on their way back to Ladysmith Army Camp. Unknown Unknown
on 17 August 2026 · via source
68444918N Rifleman Richard Neville Marriott (5 SAI). He was 17.
on 17 August 2026 · via source
13 Sep 1970: Six members from 5 SAI and one member from 3 SAI were killed while being transported in a Gladiator Troop Carrier back to Ladysmith Army Camp. Their vehicle was involved in a head-on collision with a Newspaper Delivery Van between Colesburg and Philippolis and the vehicle immediately burst into flames with the men still trapped inside. The casualties were:
Dedications 1
by Dick Klynsmith on 02 June 2012 · via source
I was there when Tich died, I have added a dedication and an explanation under John Grinyer's name.