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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] Rugby union careerAmateur careerGilbert-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 careerGilbert-Smith was capped for Scotland once, in 1952, in the Five Nations Calcutta Cup match against England.[5] Army careerGilbert-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 careerGilbert-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
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