David Gilbert-Smith

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

David Gilbert-Smith

Birth name	David Stuart Gilbert-Smith
Date of birth	3 December 1931
Place of birth	Pune, India
Date of death	24 March 2003 (aged 71)
Place of death	Cheltenham, England
School	St Edward's School, Oxford
Rugby union career
Position(s) Flanker Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) – London Scottish Army Rugby Union () National team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) 1952 Scotland 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

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

Army career

He joined the Army in 1951.[3]

Gilbert-Smith 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]

He also served in the SAS.[3]

Business career

Subsequently Gilbert-Smith 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".

External links

• Liddell Hart Military Archives, King's College London
• Army international caps
• Leadership Trust