David Gilbert-Smith

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David Gilbert-Smith
BornDavid Stuart Gilbert-Smith
(1931-12-03)3 December 1931
Pune, British India
Died24 March 2003(2003-03-24) (aged 71)
Cheltenham, England
School St Edward's School, Oxford
Rugby union career
Position 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]

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. ↑ Gloucester Rugby, The Players. Gloucester: The Hobnob Press. 2022. pp. Career Statistics Page 25. ISBN   978-1-914407-46-8.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "David Gilbert-Smith – Telegraph". telegraph.co.uk. 3 May 2003. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  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.
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