The gun would be deployed on the highest ground, with the best field of fire.
The few guns were deployed on the left and in the centre.
Secondly, almost all guns were deployed singly in company or platoon bases.
This gun was also deployed in dual role coast defence/AA positions.
It is also considered that four guns were deployed for emplacement at Magnetic Island during the war.
Light anti-aircraft guns were deployed at the fort in 1939.
As it happened, only the lighter guns could be deployed for the battle itself.
Just ten years later, during a war with France, guns were again deployed around the town.
By 1995 18 guns were deployed with the 23rd Singapore artillery battalion in three batteries of six guns.
In July 1940, only 1,200 heavy and 549 light guns were deployed in the whole of Britain.