Dear Wife: Letters from a World War I Soldier in France

In July 1917, three months after the United States entered World War I, newly-married, twenty-six-year-old Harold King Chadwick enlisted with the New York Infantry. As a graduate of Columbia University, he hoped to become an officer. Instead, he began his military service as a private in the 102nd Engineers, training at Camp Wadsworth near Spartanburg, South Carolina, before heading to France. Letters to his wife, Ethel, pregnant with their first child, provide a glimpse into the  thoughts and struggles experienced by a family separated by war.
This compilation includes previously unpublished images from the earliest days of the camp, taken by Harold himself.

Introduction by Peter A. Chadwick

Peter Chadwick is a retired IT product management executive. He earned an AB from Middlebury College and MA from Princeton University in chemistry. After a forty-two-year career working in global information technology, he volunteers for Habitat for Humanity and is a member of the Southeast Wisconsin Master Gardeners. With the passing of his father in 2012, he became the keeper of photos and other family ephemera.

After living or working in eight of the original thirteen colonies and two years in France, Pete resides in Wisconsin. He and his wife, Linda, spent more than twenty years in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, where they raised their two children.