George Johnson Armstrong

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George Johnson Armstrong (1902 – 10 July 1941) was the first British citizen to be executed under the Treachery Act of 1940. Only two other British Citizens would share this fate: Duncan Scott-Ford and Theodore Schurch.

Armstrong was born in Newcastle and was a marine engineer by occupation. He was tried on 8th May, 1941 at the Central Criminal Court (the Old Bailey in London) 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 he was executed by hanging at HM Prison Wandsworth by Thomas Pierrepoint at the age of thirty-nine.