Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Naval Good Shooting Medal, E.VII.R. (157001 H. Shopland, A.B., H.M.S. Implacable, 1903, 12 In. B.L.) about very fine £140-160

Henry Walter Shopland was born in Wallington, Northumberland in April 1875 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in April 1893. Enjoying steady advancement to the rank of Petty Officer 1st Class in April 1901, he was re-rated as an Able Seaman aboard the battleship H.M.S. Implacable in May 1902. Discharged ashore and enrolled in the Royal Fleet Reserve in April 1905, Shopland was recalled in October 1914 and joined the ship’s company of the sloop Rinaldo in the same month. In her he would have served off the Belgian coast, and possibly in the Cameroons. But in April 1915, having been transferred to Vivid I, he was invalided ashore for a final time.