Robert Street
Robert Street is a chartered building surveyor who lives in Solihull, West Midlands with his wife Christine and their three children. He runs a successful building surveying company, Edgeworth Street Ltd.
What did Granddad do in the War?
All kids seem to ask that nowadays. Many don’t know, nor do their parents. Some never find out because the suffering and horrors experienced prevented men talking about the war years. In some cases the details have been taken to their graves.
As a boy, Robert enjoyed listening to the stories that his father, Raymond would tell him of his own time spent in WW2 and as time went by, he decided to record the tales in a series of books.
His first was published in 1998, titled, “A Brummie in Burma” and told of the experiences of a typical lad from Birmingham’s inner city being thrust into the amazing sight of of exotic lands and the horrors of war.
It chronicled the activities and achievements of his Regiment, the Fourth Battalion of the Queen’s Own Royal West Kents through the Burma campaign, including their remarkable defence during the ‘Siege of Kohima,’ where the ‘Battle for Burma’ was fought and the Japanese advance to India was halted.
Subsequent to that book many of the former Royal West Kents have contacted him with information about that battle which previously was unknown, some of which has not been even disclosed to family or friends.