K13 Memorial Park - Carlingford, NSW, Australia - Non-Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

On the left-hand side of the Memorial K13 pond is a tall sandstone stela, that has multiple bronze plaques on it. The topmost (square) one explains the background of the Memorial Park, while the next two (tall, parallel), list the submarines lost in WW1. The next plaque gives a 'nautical' Biblical Verse and details where the WW1 plaques came from. The bottom two parallel tall tablets list the British submarine losses from the end of World War One, through World War Two, through to 1955. From top to bottom of the stela the plaques read:

   This Park was donated to the City
of Parramatta and the Memorial was
erected in honour of H.M.Submarine
Service, Royal Navy, by Charles Albert
Harry Freestone a survivor of K13,
who after leaving the Royal Navy founded
and for the next thirty years developed
the business of C.A.Freestone Pty. Ltd.
in Parramatta and district.
		-------
	These Plaques are the gift of
Commander Submarines, Officers and
Men of Fourth Submarine Division,
Royal Navy Balmoral and the Commander
and his Officers are guardians of this
Memorial in perpetuity.
		-------
   Commander			Lieut. General
Philip R.Wood 		Sir William Oliver KGB, OBE
  Commander Submarines	  High Commissioner for the
Fourth Submarine Division, Sydney	United Kingdom 
		M.F.Freestone
	Widow of the late Charles A. Freestone
	   10th September, 1961

The pair below are for World War One>

H.M.SVBMARINES			H.M.SVBMARINES
LOST.ON.SERVICE			LOST.ON.SERVICE
    1914			    1917
 D.2	E.3			 C.16	E.49
 D.5	A.E.1			 C.34	G.9
    1915			 E.36	K.1
 C.29	E.10			 E.47	K.13
 C.31	E.13			    1918
 C.33	E.15			 D.3	G.11
 E.6	E.20			 D.6	H.5
 E.7	A.E.2			 E.14	H.10
    1916			 E.34	J.6
 E.4	E.24			 E.50	K.4
 E.5	E.26			 G.7	K.17
 E.16	E.30			 G.8	L.10
 E.17	E.37			    L.55
 E.18	E.41
 E.22	H.3
     H.6

The bronze plaque below is square, and tells where the above plaques originated. It reads:

   They that go down to the sea in ships
and occupy their business in great waters.
These men see the works of the Lord and
His wonders are in the deep.
			Psalm 107, Verse 23.
		-------
   This Memorial has been created in memory
of those Officers and Men of the Commonwealth
who gave their lives in submarines while
serving the cause of freedom. It is called
the K13 Memorial in particular memory of
those lost in H.M.Submarine K13.
		-------
   The Plaques giving the submarine losses
before the end of the First World War
came from the Submarine Memorial on the
Thames Embankment, London.

The bottom two, tall parallel tablets, gives the losses of British submarines, from 1918 through World War Two, to 1955.

H.M.SVBMARINES			H.M.SVBMARINES
LOST.ON.SERVICE			LOST.ON.SERVICE
   1918-1939			   1941-1945
E1	H42			H31	REGENT
E8	K15			TRIUMPH	P 615
E9	L24			TEMPEST	SPLENDID
E19	M1			P38	SAHIB
C26	H29			P39	UNTAMED
C27	H47			P36	PARTHIAN
C35	POSEIDON		PANDORA	SARACEN
C3	M2			UPHOLDER USURPER
K5	THETIS			URGE	TROOPER
   1939-1941			OLYMPUS	SIMOON
OXLEY	SPEARFISH		P514	X8
UNDINE	RAINBOW			THORN	X5
SEAHORSE H49			TALISMAN X6
STARFISH TRIAD			UNIQUE	X7
THISTLE	SWORDFISH		UNBEATEN X10
TARPON	RESULUS			UTMOST	X9
STERLET	TRITON			TRAVELLER  X22
UNITY	SNAPPER			P222	P716
ODIN	USX			P48	STONEHENGE
GRAMPUS UNDAUNTED		P311	SYRTIS
ORPHEUS	UMPIRE			VANDAL	SICKLE
SHARK	UNION			TIGRIS	STRATAGEM
SALMON	CACHALOT		THUNDEERBOLT PORPOISE
PHOENIX	P32			TURBULENT
THAMES	P33			   1945-1955
NARWHAL	TETRARCH		TRUCULENT  SIDON
OSWALD	PERSEUS			AFFRAY

The architect for this Memorial was: Douglas B. Snelling, A.R.A.I.A. A.R.I.S.A
The Sculptor was: Gerald Lewers.

There is also an Interpretative Sign, for the K13 submarine tragedy off Scotland in 1917.

Visited: 1250, Sunday, 4 June, 2017

Type of Memorial: Multi-War Memorial Wars mentioned (Multi-war only): World War One 'Inter-War': 1918-1939 World War Two Post World War Two: 1945-1955 In Honor Of: Submariners Marker Text: Included Date of dedication: 1961 Who Put it Here?: Freestone Description of Memorial: A 3 metre tall sandstone stela stands beside a man-made pond. In the pond is a white-painted, metre tall "K 13", with another boulder behind that and a 'cut-out' of a submarine on top (presumably representing the K13).

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