{"id":2341,"date":"2025-03-31T11:02:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/george-cross-medal-could-be-sold-for-2-1-million-at-auction\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T11:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:02:53","slug":"george-cross-medal-could-be-sold-for-2-1-million-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/george-cross-medal-could-be-sold-for-2-1-million-at-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"George Cross medal could be sold for \u00a32.1 million at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-03-31 11:02:52<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A George Cross medal bought in a car boot sale for \u00a320 could fetch up to \u00a32 million at auction.<BR><br \/>\nThe medal &#8211; which is the highest award given to someone for their great acts of heroism or courage in scenarios of extreme danger &#8211; was bestowed posthumously to Second Lieutenant Michael Paul Benner in 1957.<BR><br \/>\nHe died after trying to save Snapper Phillips &#8211; who joined Michael and four other men as they took part in a mammoth 12,400 expedition to Austria&#8217;s tallest mountain, Grossglockner &#8211; after he slipped and fell on their descent due to the icy and stormy weather conditions.<BR><br \/>\nWith no hesitation, Michael tried to save him, but it ended in him also falling to his death.<BR><br \/>\nAfter the medal was not seen for years, it was discovered in a box of military memorabilia at an East Yorkshire car boot sale, and it was slapped with a \u00a320 price tag.<BR><br \/>\nNow, it is set to go under the hammer on April 1, 2025, at Heckmondwike Auctions in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire. <BR><br \/>\nA reserve price has been set for between \u00a360,000 and \u00a380,000.<BR><br \/>\nHowever, the auctioneers said another rare George Cross medal previously sold for \u00a32.1 million.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-03-31 11:02:52 A George Cross medal bought in a car boot sale for \u00a320 could fetch up to \u00a32 million at auction. The medal &#8211; which is the highest award&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions\/2343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}