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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 · On 4 January 1946, 27-year-old Private Theodore Schurch RASC, Service Number T/61711 was taken from his cell in Pentonville Prison and hanged.
Jan 4, 2009 · 1946: The treacherous Theodore Schurch. 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.
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 · Theodore Schurch. 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 ...
Theodore Schurch was hanged at Pentonville Prison on 4 January 1946; the day after the execution of William Joyce at Wandsworth Prison. The executioner, in both cases, was Albert Pierrepoint. T/61711 Private Theodore John William Schurch, Royal Army Service Corps (RASC), is commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial.
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Nov 10, 2017 · Traitor Theodore Schurch spent years spying for the Germans and Italians and was hanged at Pentonville prison in 1946. But a military tradition led to his name going on a monument at the war graves cemetery in Brookwood, Surrey.
