The QF 3-inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun became the standard anti-aircraft gun used in the home defence of the United Kingdom against German Zeppelins airships and bombers and on the Western Front in Wo
Aboard HMS Royal Oak in World War I
Guns on 4-wheeled trailers with Vickers Predictor at left, Australia c. 1937
Demonstration of towing on 2-wheeled travelling platform
Demonstration of deployment for action on cruciform travelling platform with wheels removed
The 13 pounder 9 cwt anti-aircraft gun became the standard mobile British anti-aircraft gun of the World War I era, especially in theatres outside Britain.
QF 3-inch 20 cwt
…operational control of the Army. Other earlier anti-aircraft guns based on the existing 13-pounder and 18-pounder guns proved inadequate, apart from the QF 13-pounder 9 cwt but even that could not reach high altitudes and fired a fairly light shell. The 3-inch 20 cwt with its powerful and stable in flight, 16 lb (7.3 kg…
QF 13 pdr 9 cwt on Mark IV mounting in Liévin, May 1918
On a Peerless TC4 lorry during the Battle of Arras, May 1917
On an improvised field mount in Italy
Gun on Mk IV mount in action at Cambrai, 13 March 1918