Huffam, Valentine Julius Blake

Diary of Julius Huffam (1893-1919). The diary spans the period from Friday 6 February 1914 to Saturday 6 February 1915. The entry dated 5 August 1914, reflects on the outbreak of World War One. Written while in Australia, Nelsonian Julius Huffam’s diary entry is a colourful description of the nervous excitement displayed when war was declared. Julius returned to New Zealand in 1915, departing with the New Zealand Medical Corps in June. He worked as a cook at Brockenhurst Hospital in England be