5145 Private A Street, 2nd Battalion the Lancashire Fusiliers. The Battalion deployed to South Africa for the Second Anglo Boer War, sailing on the Norman on 2 Dec 1900, arriving at the Cape about 19 Dec 1900 and was sent round to Durban. Along with the 2nd King's Royal Lancaster Regiment, 1st South Lancashire Regiment, and the 1st York and Lancaster Regiment, they formed the 11th Brigade under Major General Woodgate, part of the Ladysmith relief force. They fought in the actions about Venter's Spruit on the 19-21 Jan 1900 and on 23-24 Jan 1900 they attacked Spion Kop (43 killed, over 100 wounded). Private Street was one of those killed in action on 24 Jan 1900 at Spion Kop on the Upper Tugela, about 6 miles east of Acton Homes. He was buried on the battlefield. He is commemorated on the Spion Kop memorial (see: https://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=2266216). He is also commemorated on the Lancashire Fusiliers Boer War memorial in Whitehead Gardens, Knowsley Street, Bury, Greater Manchester, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/153138/).
5145 Private A Street, 2nd Battalion the Lancashire Fusiliers. The Battalion deployed to South Africa for the Second Anglo Boer War, sailing on the Norman on 2 Dec 1900, arriving at the Cape about 19 Dec 1900 and was sent round to Durban. Along with the 2nd King's Royal Lancaster Regiment, 1st South Lancashire Regiment, and the 1st York and Lancaster Regiment, they formed the 11th Brigade under Major General Woodgate, part of the Ladysmith relief force. They fought in the actions about Venter's Spruit on the 19-21 Jan 1900 and on 23-24 Jan 1900 they attacked Spion Kop (43 killed, over 100 wounded). Private Street was one of those killed in action on 24 Jan 1900 at Spion Kop on the Upper Tugela, about 6 miles east of Acton Homes. He was buried on the battlefield. He is commemorated on the Spion Kop memorial (see: https://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=2266216). He is also commemorated on the Lancashire Fusiliers Boer War memorial in Whitehead Gardens, Knowsley Street, Bury, Greater Manchester, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/153138/).
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