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David Gilbert-Smith
Scotland international rugby union player
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]
| Birth name | David Stuart Gilbert-Smith | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Amateur career
Gilbert-Smith played for London Scottish.[2] He also played for the Army Rugby Union side.[3]
International career
Gilbert-Smith was capped for Scotland once, in 1952, in the Five Nations Calcutta Cup match against England.[4]
Gilbert-Smith joined the British Army in 1951.[3] 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.[3] He fought in the battle alongside another Scotland international rugby player, Mike Campbell-Lamerton. The two became lifelong friends.[5]
Gilbert-Smith also served in the Special Air Service (SAS).[3]
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.[3]
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- "» Day jobs and life after rugby, Part 3: Scotland and FranceRugbydata". Archived from the original on 4 May 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2017.