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1941: Louis Berrier, messenger pigeoner

Posted on 2 August, 2019 by Headsman
Notice: Louis Berrier, a resident of Ernes is charged with having released a pigeon with a message for England. He was, therefore, sentenced to death for espionage by the court martial and shot on the 2nd of August.
From the Channel Island Military Museum on the Channel island of Jersey; image courtesy of Trip Advisor.

On this day..

  • 1838: Remexido, Liberal Wars holdout
  • 1872: Charles Marlow, brewer
  • 1952: Johann Burianek, East German saboteur
  • 1415: Thomas Grey, Southampton Plotter
  • 1834: Eliza Joyce, confessed poisoner
  • 2005: Steven Vincent, Iraq War journalist
  • 1996: Sergey Golovkin, the last executed in Russia
  • 1994: Not Arthur Judah Angel, death row artist
  • Themed Set: Scary Escapes
  • 2007: Majid and Hossein Kavousifar
  • 1608: Jean Duval, for plotting against Champlain
  • 1904: Heinrich, a Herero
  • 1343: Olivier III de Clisson, husband of the Lioness of Brittany

Possibly related executions:

  • 1914: Carl Hans Lody
  • 1945: Denise Bloch, Lilian Rolfe and Violette Szabo
  • 1916: Robert Digby in Villeret
  • 1944: Noor Inayat Khan, SOE operative
  • 1915: Carl Frederick Muller, fluent in languages but not in espionage
  • 1944: Hannah Szenes, who gambled on what mattered most
  • 1918: Louis Harris and Ernest Jackson, the last British soldiers shot at dawn
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