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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.
11 de nov. de 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 William John Schurch (5 de mayo de 1918 - 4 de enero de 1946) fue un soldado británico que fue ejecutado en virtud de la Ley de Traición de 1940 después del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Fue la última persona ejecutada en Gran Bretaña por un delito distinto del asesinato.
10 de nov. de 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.
4 de ene. de 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. Like Joyce, Schurch had enrolled in the British Union of Fascists as a teenager in the 1930’s, and it was reputedly at the party’s direction that he joined the army as a driver.
Theodore Schurch, a night porter at the Savoy who had been born to an English mother and Swiss father, was introduced to a “network of suburban English fascists” by the typist, Irene Page....
