The home troops who received it had the regimental numbers impressed and not the territorial designations, as on the South African medals. The Naval medals were generally engraved in dwarfed Roman capitals. The Ashantee medal for 1873-4 was engraved in this style, ~BUCHANAN, 42ND.~ with the date 1873-74, after the regiment, but on the 1892 medals, while the same style was used, it was engraved with thinner down-strokes and was smaller. When the I.G.S. medals, 1854 type, were first issued the names were impressed similar to the M.G.S. medal; but those medals awarded to the navy and the army for Pegu have very small tall Roman capitals on the edge; for Perak the names are engraved in sloping Roman capitals like the Afghan medals described below; or like the medals for the rest of the campaigns with the exception of Jowaki, 1877-8, which by the way was the first campaign medal to have the date indicated on the bar, the names were generally engraved as ~P. Murphy~, and the same style of script, but very lightly engraved, as ~Edward~, was used to name the I.G.S. 1895 medal. This light and somewhat scratchy form of script was also employed in a very characteristic manner, to name the Punniar and Maharajpoor stars, and also some of the first Cabul medals, 1842. The Burma 1885-7 medal is generally engraved in a light running hand; but I have seen several engraved in slightly sloping squat Roman letters, ~2/SCOTS FUS~: The script kind of naming was used on the 1887-9 and 1889-92 Burma medals, but some of the latter medals were engraved in a neat round hand. The Naval medals awarded for Burma 1885-7 are mostly named with rather tall thin Roman capitals. The medals for Jowaki 1877-8 are impressed with Roman capitals after the character of M.G.S. lettering, and the regiments are generally described so, 2/9th Foot. The Afghan medals for 1878-9-80 were engraved thus, ~RENDELL~, or in the same style of letter but upright, as were also the Egyptian medals of 1882 onward; but most of those issued to the Royal Marine Light Infantry and seamen who took part in the Suakin Expedition of 1885 were indented like this, ~HENRY~. This kind of type was also used for naming the King Edward Naval Long Service medals. Some, however, were impressed in tall Roman capitals having thick down-strokes. The engraving on the Egyptian medals awarded to some of the Indian troops, dooley bearers, and Indian transport department is in a very finely cut, neat script. Some of the Zulu War medals of 1878-9-80 were engraved in this way, ~SHEA~, the letters being rather badly shaped and spaced, but most were engraved in the same style as the Afghan and Egyptian medals. The Soudan medals were engraved in this style ~CURTIS~, and some ~GORE.R.A.~: some of the Queen's and Khedive's medals were impressed in very small Roman letters, thus MACPHERSON. In a few instances the Queen's medals, like the Khedive's, were issued unnamed, and the recipients had to have them engraved.