Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A post-War M.V.O. group of seven awarded to Lance-Corporal E. V. Schopman, Royal Army Service Corps, attached British Army Newspaper Unit, later Royal Household Account Executive, Harrison & Sons, Printers

The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 5th Class breast badge, silver nad enamel, the reverse officially numbered ‘1487’; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 1st Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1977, unnamed as issued, mounted court-style as worn, with Defence Council enclosure and named card box of issue for the Second War awards, addressed to ‘Mr. E. V. Schopman, M.V.O., Horizons, 1b Anthony Close Poughill, Bude, N-Cornwall, EX23 9HD’, the Second War awards all later issues, extremely fine (7) £400-£500

M.V.O. London Gazette 3 June 1978.

Edward Victor Schopman was born on 17 August 1918, and at the age of 14 was apprenticed to a firm of printers. He attested for the Royal Army Service Corps on 16 July 1939, and served during the Second World War with the British Army Newspaper Unit, latterly stationed in Venice. Post-War, he was employed by Messrs Harrison & Sons, Printers (a firm that held three Royal Warrants as Printers for the Royal Household and various Government Departments), and was latterly the firm’s Royal Household Account Executive. For his services he was created a Member of the Royal Victorian Order shortly before his retirement to Cornwall.

Sold with a copy of the Statutes of the Royal Victorian Order; three Central Chancery letters regarding the M.V.O.; Bestowal Certificate for the Silver Jubilee Medal; and a large quantity of copied research, including copies of the recipient’s Army record of service.