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Kirkland Hart Day
1890–1973
Best known for a lively World War I sketchbook, this American writer and illustrator turned frontline transport duty into sharp, funny observations. His work offers a rare mix of soldierly firsthand experience and cartoonist wit.
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Camion cartoons
by Kirkland Hart Day
About the author
Kirkland Hart Day was an American writer and illustrator born in 1890. Archival records from the American Field Service place him in Cambridge, Massachusetts, note that he was educated at M.I.T. and graduated in 1917, and record his World War I service in France with a camion unit before later service as a sergeant in the U.S. Motor Transport Corps.
He is best known for Camion Cartoons, published in 1919. The book grew out of letters and drawings from his wartime experience, combining humor, observation, and the everyday realities of transport work behind the lines. Its appeal comes from the way it captures military life without losing a sense of personality or play.
Day died in 1973. Though not a widely known literary figure today, his surviving work stands out as an engaging personal record of the First World War, especially for readers interested in memoir, illustration, and the human side of service history.