George Guy Marsland Bennett (22 April 1883 – 6 February 1966) MC was an English first-class cricketer, British Army officer and solicitor.
He played first-class cricket for Oxford University from 1903 to 1905, before serving in the First World War with both the Royal Irish Rifles and the Machine Gun Corps, during the course of which he was awarded the Military Cross.
[1] Prior to the First World War, Bennett continued to make regular appearances for Berkshire in minor counties cricket.
[3] Bennett enlisted in the British Army on 29 September 1914,[8] and served during World War I with the Royal Irish Rifles as a second lieutenant in April 1915.
[10] By March 1917, he has been made an acting captain,[11] a rank he relinquished when he ceased to command a depot company.