Medal Naming

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Hi
I have always assumed that medals were and are named by workshop attached to the medal office before being sent to the recipient's unit.
However, a few years ago I took a couple of trophies that I had won in Singapore in 1962 to be engraved with my name by a jeweller whose business was not that far from a military camp.
In the course of the conversation he mentioned that he used to engrave medals for that camp, as their armourers, who had been stamping them, had damaged several.
Does anyone know if this was common practice? Or merely a figment of his imagination?