Major-General Vivian Wakefield Street, CMG CBE DSO MC JP (1912 – 4 April 1970) was a British Army officer who commanded the 3rd Infantry Division for a period during the 1960s.
[1] 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.
[1] 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.
[1] 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.
[2] Street was married to Annette Mary Lever Crean in 1945.