David Gilbert-Smith
David Gilbert-Smith was a Scotland international rugby union footballer. Gilbert-Smith played as a flanker.Amateur career
Gilbert-Smith played for London Scottish.
He also played for the Army Rugby Union side.International career
He was capped for once, in 1952, in the Five Nations Calcutta Cup match against.Army career
He joined the Army in 1951.
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.
He fought in the battle alongside another Scotland international rugby player Mike Campbell-Lamerton. The two became lifelong friends.
He also served in the SAS.Business career
Subsequently Gilbert-Smith 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.
