Education
Wellington College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
chairman army officer commander
Wellington College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College Sandhurst, Street was commissioned into the Devonshire Regiment in 1932. He served as an intelligence officer in Palestine in 1938 for which tour he received the Military Cross. He also served in the Second World War as a general staff officer before becoming the officer in charge of the beach at Portuguese Raphtis during Allied evacuation of Greece in 1941. In 1944 he was made second-in-command of the British Military Mission to Yugoslavia.
He was appointed Commander of the Parachute Brigade of the Territorial Army in 1954, Deputy Director of Staff Duties at the War Office in 1956 and Military Adviser to the King of Jordan in 1959.
He went on to be General Officer Commanding 3rd Division in 1961 before retiring in 1963. In retirement he became Chairman of the Save the Children Fund.
He was also Appeal Director of the British Cardiac Society.