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key men who could not be spared from specialist jobs, joined the Civilian Protective

Services (CPS) which were an integral part of the Home Guard. They were trained in first

aid, fire-fighting, traffic control, demolition of buildings, coping with air raids, treatment
of incendiary bombs, precautions against bomb-blasts, and black-out techniques.

Army component

The SA Army strong-points comprised groups of gun emplacements (often a grouping of

three 9.2 inch guns or two 6 inch guns) and related fire control points covering Table Bay

and False Bay.

Table 3.1: Gun emplacements on the Cape Peninsula

TABLE BAY FIRE COMMAND SIMON'S BAY FIRE COMMAND

Cornelia & Robben Island Batteries Lower North Battery, Simon's Town
Lion Battery, Signal Hill Middle North Battery, Simon's Town

Apostle Battery, Llandudno Scala Battery, Simon’s Town
Wynyard Battery, Green Point Queen's Battery, Simon's Town

Docks Battery, Cape Town Docks Battery,

Fine View & York Batteries, Hout Bay Gordon's Bay Battery
Fortress Observation Posts at Signal Hill Fortress Observation Posts at Cape

Point, Olifantsbosch and Slangkop

Soon after the war started the invention of radar saw the construction from 1941/42

onwards of the first of a chain of some 50 radar installations at high points along the South
African coastline, of which 17 were located along the Cape west coast between Baboon

Point / Elands Bay and Cape Agulhas. (Fig. 3.1). Their primary purpose was the detection
of U-boats. The first five stations were installed on Signal Hill, Cape Point, Slangkop,

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