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Vivian Street (British Army officer)

British Army general

Field	Value
honorific_prefix	Major-General
name	Vivian Street
honorific_suffix
birth_date	1912
death_date	4 April 1970 (aged 57−58)
allegiance	United Kingdom
branch
serviceyears	1932–1963
servicenumber	53698
rank	Major-General
unit	Devonshire Regiment
Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)
commands	Parachute Brigade of the Territorial Army
[3rd Division](3rd-division-united-kingdom)
battles	World War II
[Arab revolt in Palestine](1936-1939-arab-revolt-in-palestine)
awards	Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Distinguished Service Order
Military Cross
spouse	Annette Mary Lever

Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) 3rd Division Arab revolt in Palestine Commander of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Service Order Military Cross Major-General Vivian Wakefield Street (19124 April 1970) was a British Army officer who commanded the 3rd Infantry Division for a period during the 1960s.

Military career

Educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Street was commissioned into the Devonshire Regiment in 1932. He served as an intelligence officer with the 14th Infantry Brigade in Palestine during the Arab revolt in 1938 for which tour he received the MC. He also served in the Second World War as a general staff officer before becoming the officer in charge of the beach at Port Raphtis during Allied evacuation of Greece in 1941. After that he served with the 1st Special Air Service Regiment and carried out raids behind enemy lines in North Africa before being captured by the Italians and then escaping from a torpedoed Italian submarine. In 1944 he was made second-in-command of the Maclean 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.

Family

Street was married to Annette Mary Lever Crean in 1945.

References

[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/summary/st80-001.shtml Vivian Wakefield Street] Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
He was also appeal director of the ''British Cardiac Society''.[http://heart.bmj.com/content/26/1/135.extract Proceeds of the British Cardiac Society] 25 October 1963
"Street, Major-General Vivian Wakefield". Who's Who.

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