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 name	David Stuart Gilbert-Smith
Date of birth	(1931-12-03)3 December 1931
Place of birth	Pune, British India
Date of death	24 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) Years Team Apps (Points) London Scottish () – Army Rugby Union () – Gloucester RFC () International career 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 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]