David Gilbert-Smith

David Gilbert-Smith, MC (3 December 1931 – 24 March 2003) was a Scotland international rugby union footballer and a British Army officer. Gilbert-Smith played as a flanker.[1]

David Gilbert-Smith
Birth nameDavid Stuart Gilbert-Smith
Date of birth(1931-12-03)3 December 1931
Place of birthPune, British India
Date of death24 March 2003(2003-03-24) (aged 71)
Place of deathCheltenham, England
SchoolSt Edward's School, Oxford
Rugby union career
Position(s) Flanker
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
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International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1952
1 (0)

Rugby union career

Amateur career

Gilbert-Smith played for London Scottish.[2] He also played for the Army Rugby Union side.[3]

International career

Gilbert-Smith was capped for Scotland once, in 1952, in the Five Nations Calcutta Cup match against England.[4]

Army career

Gilbert-Smith joined the British Army in 1951.[3] He won the Military Cross as a result of his bravery when with the Duke of Wellington's Regiment in the Battle of the Hook in Korea in 1953.[3] He fought in the battle alongside another Scotland international rugby player, Mike Campbell-Lamerton. The two became lifelong friends.[5]

Gilbert-Smith also served in the Special Air Service (SAS).[3]

Business career

Gilbert-Smith subsequently worked as a Training Manager for Bulmers. He later founded the Leadership Trust in 1975, working with Janet Richardson, a behavioural psychologist, whom he married in 1985.[3]

References
  1. "David Gilbert-Smith | Rugby Union | Players and Officials | ESPN Scrum". en.espn.co.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  2. The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
  3. "David Gilbert-Smith – Telegraph". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  4. "Rugby Union – ESPN Scrum – Statsguru – Player analysis – David Gilbert-Smith – Test matches". en.espn.co.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  5. "» Day jobs and life after rugby, Part 3: Scotland and FranceRugbydata". Archived from the original on 4 May 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
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