serviceyears branch death_place death_date birth_place allegiance unit battles birth_date article_title name
1936 -- 1942 royal army service corps hm prison pentonville , london , united kingdom 04 january 1946 london , england united kingdom nazi germany kingdom of italy royal army service corps tobruk 05 may 1918 theodore schurch
 theodore william john schurch
theodore schurch

theodore william john schurch -lrb- 5 may 1918 -- 4 january 1946 -rrb- was a british soldier of anglo-swiss parentage who was executed under the treachery act 1940 following the end of the second world war .
he was the last person to be executed in britain for an offence other than murder .
