Sometime in the early 1890s Johnnie Butterworth disappeared from his Rochdale home after a family quarrel. He was not heard of again for months, probably several years. Then, in 1896, a letter arrived at 32 Yorkshire Street from 'Corporal John Butterworth, Kings Royal Rifles, Jullundur, NW India'. For the next four years regular correspondence between Johnnie and his family would reunite the family. By 1896 Johnnie had become Corporal John Butterworth, an 'Uncommission Officer' in Queen Victoria's army, serving with the King's Royal Rifles in post-Mutiny Imperial India. At first Johnnie would...