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 shared this fate: Duncan Scott-Ford and Theodore Schurch.
Armstrong was born in Newcastle and his occupation was a marine engineer. 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 and offering 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. He was executed by hanging at HM Prison Wandsworth on 10 July 1941 by Thomas Pierrepoint. He was thirty-nine.
