Age: 39
Sex: male
Crime: spying
Date Of Execution: 9 Jul 1941
Execution Place: Wandsworth
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
George Armstrong was implicated in a Nazi spy ring in the USA and of approaching a German consul in the USA in 1940 whilst it was neutral offering to spy for the Reich. He was arrested in Boston as a spy and deported, when he returned to England he was questioned and arrested for spying, convicted and executed.
