David Gilbert-Smith

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David Gilbert-Smith
Birth nameDavid Stuart Gilbert-Smith
Date of birth(1931-12-03)3 December 1931
Place of birth Pune, British India
Date of death24 March 2003(2003-03-24) (aged 71)
Place of death Cheltenham, England
School St Edward's School, Oxford
Rugby union career
Position(s) Flanker
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
London Scottish ()
Army Rugby Union ()
Gloucester RFC ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1952 Scotland 1 (0)

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]

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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.[ citation needed ] He later founded the Leadership Trust in 1975, working with Janet Richardson, a behavioural psychologist, whom he married in 1985. [4]

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  2. The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
  3. Gloucester Rugby, The Players. Gloucester: The Hobnob Press. 2022. pp. Career Statistics Page 25. ISBN   978-1-914907-46-8.{{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: checksum (help)
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  5. "Rugby Union – ESPN Scrum – Statsguru – Player analysis – David Gilbert-Smith – Test matches". en.espn.co.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  6. "» Day jobs and life after rugby, Part 3: Scotland and FranceRugbydata". Archived from the original on 4 May 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2017.