David Gilbert-Smith
Birth name | David Stuart Gilbert-Smith | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 3 December 1931 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Pune, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 24 March 2003 | (aged 71)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Cheltenham, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | St Edward's School, Oxford | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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David Gilbert-Smith (3 December 1931 – 24 March 2003) was a former Scotland international rugby union player. Gilbert-Smith played as a flanker.[1]
Rugby union career
Amateur career
Gilbert-Smith played for London Scottish.[2]
He also played for the Army Rugby Union side.[3]
International career
He was capped for Scotland once, in 1952, in the Five Nations Calcutta Cup match against England.[4]
Army career
He joined the Army in 1951.[3]
Gilbert-Smith 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]
Business career
Gilbert-Smith founded the Leadership trust.[3] He also worked as a Training Manager for Bulmers.[citation needed]
References
- ^ "David Gilbert-Smith | Rugby Union | Players and Officials | ESPN Scrum". en.espn.co.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
- ^ The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
- ^ a b c d e "David Gilbert-Smith - Telegraph". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
- ^ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - David Gilbert-Smith - Test matches". en.espn.co.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
- ^ "» Day jobs and life after rugby, Part 3: Scotland and FranceRugbydata".
External links
- 1931 births
- Scottish rugby union players
- Scotland international rugby union players
- Rugby union flankers
- 2003 deaths
- Sportspeople from Pune
- Army rugby union players
- London Scottish F.C. players
- Duke of Wellington's Regiment officers
- British Army personnel of the Korean War
- Recipients of the Military Cross
- Special Air Service officers
- People educated at St Edward's School, Oxford
- Rugby players from Maharashtra