'The Hot Water Queue - Holzminden Prisoner of War Camp 1918. Prisoners often had to queue for hours for everything, including cooking and washing - 'Hot water being at a premium, it was annoying, to say the least, when the next man in line poured the fiery liquid over your foot.' James Whale, 7Th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment. Captured 26.8.17. Pow At Holzminden Camp, Germany. Whale Drew Charcoal Portrait Sketches Of His Fellow Inmates And Played Bridge So Successfully In High Stakes Games That He Cashed In About Four Thousand Pounds' Worth Of Ious When He Got Back To England After The War. Repatriated 14.12.18.'