Name
Alwyn Percival (Percy) Street
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/10/1914
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
13472
Grenadier Guards
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
AddendaPanel 58.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary's Parish Church Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of Emily (nee JOHNSON) STREET of Iver, Bucks, and the late Seymour Edward STREET; husband of Alice Annie Amelia (nee STANBOROUGH) STREET of Uxbridge, Middx.
His parents married 1885 in the Eton, Bucks, district. Seymour died 1914 aged 59; Emily died 1934 aged 75; both in the Eton district.
Percy was born 23 July 1890 in Iver, and attended first Iver Infants’ School; then Iver National Boys’ School from 1 December 1896. He married 1913 in the Eton district. Alice remarried 1922 in the Uxbridge district to Ernest FIELD, and died 23 January 1952 in Hanwell, Middx, aged 62.
On the 1891 Census, aged 8 months he lived in Iver with his father and one sibling. On the 1901 Census, aged 10 he still lived in Iver, with his parents and six siblings. On the 1911 Census, an attendant aged 21, he lived in Chiswick, Middx.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hounslow, Middx, 21 November 1907, a labourer, and was formerly 2nd V.B. Middlesex Regiment, R.V.M. 1910. He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914 Star medals, his qualifying date being 6 October 1914, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Listed as P STREET on St Mary's Memorial.
Unfortunately, Percy’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
