Short wave radio receiver with headphones : Private R Glanville, 2/7 Battalion

Short wave radio receiver housed in a wooden opened backed case with a mock bakelite front and control knob. The reciver is complete with its original German headphones. They are impressed on the earpieces 'NEUFELDT & KUHNKE KIEL 200 OHM'.

Made mainly from parts taken from German Kleinemfanger radios repaired by VX4688 Private R Glanville, of 2/7 Battalion, while he was assigned as a prisoner of war to work in a Silesian sugar beet factory. Glanville, a radio expert, was allowed out of the camp to repair local radios and in the process managed to acquire enough parts to make his own set. The headphones were supplied by a sympathetic German servant girl. The set was powered through the socket of an Eddison light bulb in the work camp's latrines, and concealed in a Red Cross food carton when not in use. Listening was restricted to three 15 minute periods a week.