A group of medals (with accompanying miniatures), awarded to Surgeon Rear Admiral James Lawrence-Smith RN (1862-1945), comprising a Royal Victorian Order, Victorian Egypt Pair, (with Suakin 1885 bar and named to the recipient for work onboard HMS Starling), Victorian East & West Africa medal (named, and for HMS Blonde, with Sierra Leone 1898-99 bar), George V WWI War Medal, and the French star of the Légion d'Honneur, together with a Victorian Service Medal of the Order of St John of Jerusalem (later named, issued and dated 1967). The lot includes a number of related materials, comprising a framed photograph of James Lawrence-Smith, elements from his uniform, his original diary from 1914 (to include references to the start of the Great War), a copy of 'HRH Prince Henry Marice of Battenburg KG, A Memoir, by Rowland E. Prothero (to include a hand-written presentation inscription to Lawrence-Smith 'in recognition of his kind service to the Prince, from Beatrice, Prince Henry of Battenburg', [Beatrice being the wife of the Prince and Queen Victoria's youngest child], a quantity of military service certificates relating to the Lawrence-Smith, a 1896 hand-written letter from Lawerence-Smith from HMS Blonde in Madeira, three Board of Admiralty stamped certificates notifying the appointment of Lawrence-Smith to various roles, including one signed by George V, a full service history for Lawrence-Smith, a letter from the Admiralty, dated 14th May 1945, acknowledging receipt of the family's notification of the death of Lawrence Smith, and sending sympathy, two pairs of opera glasses and a photocopied collection of the above diary pages.