George Johnson Armstrong
Deceased Person
1902 – 1941
Who was George Johnson Armstrong?
George Johnson Armstrong was the first British citizen to be executed under the Treachery Act 1940. Only three other British subjects were executed under this Act; Duncan Scott-Ford, Theodore Schurch and Jose Estelle Key.
Armstrong was born in Newcastle and was a marine engineer by occupation. He was tried on 8 May 1941 at the Central Criminal Court and convicted for communicating with the German Consul in Boston, Massachusetts, to offer him assistance before the United States entered the Second World War.
His appeal on 23 June 1941, at the Court of Criminal Appeal, was dismissed, and on 10 July 1941 at the age of 39 he was executed by hanging at HM Prison Wandsworth by Thomas Pierrepoint.
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