Measurements: 17.5cm (7in) x 8.5cm (3.5in) x 5.5cm (2.2in)
Silver. Cigarette box of rectangular form, the hinged lid engraved with an escutcheon containing a crowned garter inscribed with the regimental title, over the presentation inscription ‘Royal Tyrone Fusiliers / To Major RCD Ellis / From A Few Old Brother / Officers / November 28th / 1891’. Cedar lined. Maker’s mark of T. Bros. Hallmarked Birmingham 1891.
Major Richard Claverhouse Downer Ellis was commissioned into the 22nd Cheshire Regiment of Foot, and later served as Adjutant of the RTF. Raised as the Royal Tyrone Militia during the French Revolutionary Wars it was titled the Royal Tyrone Fusiliers from 1833 and was later embodied during all of Britain's major wars. Under the reorganisation of 1881 it became 5th (Royal Tyrone Militia) Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. During the First World War it was part of the Special Reserve and trained thousands of reinforcements Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers battalions overseas.