Theodore William John Schurch (5 May 1918 – 4 January 1946) was a British soldier who was executed under the Treachery Act 1940 after the end of the Second World War.
Schurch was born in Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, Hammersmith, London, while his Swiss father was living in Britain.
He was tried by court martial at the Duke of York's Headquarters in Chelsea, London, in September 1945, with Major Melford Stevenson presiding.
[5] His execution was carried out by Albert Pierrepoint, who had hanged William Joyce the previous day for high treason.
[2] However, Duncan Scott-Ford, a merchant seaman, and civilians George Johnson Armstrong and Oswald John Job were also hanged for treachery, and New Zealand-born Captain Patrick Stanley Vaughan Heenan of the British Indian Army was convicted of espionage, and shot by a guard.