David Gilbert-Smith
| Born | David Stuart Gilbert-Smith 3 December 1931 Pune, British India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Died | 24 March 2003 (aged 71) Cheltenham, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | St Edward's School, Oxford | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
Rugby union career
Amateur career
Gilbert-Smith played for London Scottish.[2] He also played for the Army Rugby Union side and played 17 games for Gloucester[3] between 1961 and 1963.[4]
International career
Gilbert-Smith was capped for Scotland once, in 1952, in the Five Nations Calcutta Cup match against England.[5]
Army career
Gilbert-Smith joined the British Army in 1951.[4] 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.[4] He fought in the battle alongside another Scotland international rugby player, Mike Campbell-Lamerton. The two became lifelong friends.[6]
Gilbert-Smith also served in the Special Air Service (SAS).[4]
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.[4]
References
- ^ "David Gilbert-Smith | Rugby Union | Players and Officials | ESPN Scrum". en.espn.co.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
- ^ The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
- ^ Gloucester Rugby, The Players. Gloucester: The Hobnob Press. 2022. pp. Career Statistics Page 25. ISBN 978-1-914407-46-8.
- ^ a b c d e "David Gilbert-Smith – Telegraph". telegraph.co.uk. 3 May 2003. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
- ^ "Rugby Union – ESPN Scrum – Statsguru – Player analysis – David Gilbert-Smith – Test matches". en.espn.co.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
- ^ "» Day jobs and life after rugby, Part 3: Scotland and FranceRugbydata". Archived from the original on 4 May 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2017.