Michael Paul Benner, GC (14 April 1935 – 1 July 1957), known as Paul Benner,Michael Ashcroft, George Cross Heroes, 2010 was a British Army officer of the Corps of Royal Engineers who was posthumously awarded the George Cross for his actions in an alpine rescue attempt at Grossglockner, Austria.Royal Engineers Museum and Library – History Section – Sapper George Crosses (GCs) page
He was born in Blackheath, London, on 14 April 1935 and educated at Canford School in Dorset. The award of the George Cross was published in The London Gazette on 17 June 1958.
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