Introductory page with a photograph and text of the author's grandfather, Cyril Elliot. This book illustrates his war diary. Cyril Elliott was a teenager when he enlisted to fight in World War I, lured by the idea of exciting travel and adventure. What he found was quite different. But misery and terror were made easier by Kiwi humour, mates, and writing in his diary.

Cyril Elliott spent three years overseas with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade in World War I, and fought and was injured at the Western Front. He wrote of his experiences in his diary every day.

Matt’s father still possesses two of Cyril’s war diaries, as well as postcards sent and received from home. Excerpt page from book 'Nice Day For A War'