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.
The medals granted for the Punjab Frontier are named with a rather coarse script.
The engraving on the Hazara medal for 1888 has rather finer-cut strokes, and the naming on the Sikkim medal, 1888, is the same.
King Edward's medal for Waziristan, 1901-2, is engraved in the same style; but the medal for Chin-Lushai 1889-90 is named in a neat round hand.
The Maharajah of Kashmir's bronze medal for Chitral, 1895, is impressed in badly aligned and carelessly spaced block letters.
The Cape of Good Hope medal is engraved in neat, squat, upright Roman capitals, and that for Natal is generally named in very lightly impressed upright skeleton block.
The East and Central Africa medal with swivel ring is named in a light script; but the same medal with bar for Uganda, 1897-8, is engraved rather roughly in light Roman capitals.
But these medals are named in several ways. For Sierra Leone in square block capitals. With bar for 1891-2 the medal is named in slightly sloping Roman capitals, that for 1892 the same. That with bar for 1897-8 named like the tall thin block letters used on some of the Boer War medals.
The Boer War medals were generally indented with block capitals, either square, like HILL, or tall like this, HILL, or engraved in this style, F. HILL, 2/Linc Rqt: