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Theodore William John Schurch (5 May 1918 – 4 January 1946) was a British soldier who was executed under the Treachery Act 1940 after the end of the Second World War. He was the last person to be executed in Britain for an offence other than murder.
Nov 11, 2017 · Theodore Schurch, who took his Swiss father's nationality, had been given special permission to join the Army. While stationed in North Africa he was captured and later accused of passing ...
Theodore Schurch was hanged at Pentonville Prison on the 4th of January 1946 by Albert Pierrepoint, assisted by Alex Riley. He became the last person to die for a crime other than murder in the UK. Schurch’s name appears on a memorial at Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey as he was a serving British soldier.
Feb 25, 2021 · Only one British soldier was executed under the Treachery Act 1940: Theodore John William Schurch. Both William Joyce and John Amery were convicted and executed for high treason – a different offence. Theodore John William Schurch was born on 5 May 1918 at the Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital, Hammersmith, London, while his Swiss ...
Feb 19, 2021 · Theodore Schurch British soldier who began working for German and Italian intelligence after he was captured by Axis forces in North Africa. Hanged for treachery in 1946 aged 27.
Jan 4, 2009 · One day after William Joyce became the last Briton put to death for treason, 27-year-old Theodore Schurch hanged for treachery at London’s Pentonville Prison.
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Theodore Schurch was the only Second World War British soldier of the war to be executed for treachery. A Nazi sympathiser in the pay of the Third Reich, he acted as a stool pigeon to trick Allied prisoners of war into revealing military secrets.
