Kirkland H. Day

Kirkland Hart Day was an American writer and cartoonist best known for Camion Cartoons, published in 1919. Library and archive records identify him as Kirkland Hart Day, and surviving editions suggest this is the work for which he is chiefly remembered.

The book draws on his own wartime experience. In the original text, Day says he went overseas with the first Technology unit, landed in France on July 4, 1917, and later entered the American Army on October 1, 1917. That background gives the book its close-up, lived-in feel.

Rather than writing a formal war memoir, Day mixed letters, drawings, and humor. The result is a vivid snapshot of World War I service that feels personal and approachable, especially for readers interested in everyday life behind the larger history.