David Gilbert-Smith

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)

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.

Rugby union career

Amateur career

Gilbert-Smith played for London Scottish. He also played for the Army Rugby Union side and played 17 games for Gloucester between 1961 and 1963.

International career

Gilbert-Smith was capped for Scotland once, in 1952, in the Five Nations Calcutta Cup match against England.

Army career

Gilbert-Smith joined the British Army in 1951. 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. He fought in the battle alongside another Scotland international rugby player, Mike Campbell-Lamerton. The two became lifelong friends.

Gilbert-Smith also served in the Special Air Service (SAS).

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.

External links

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