Will Streets

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| name = Will Streets

| image = For remembrance, soldier poets who have fallen in the war, Adcock, 1920 DJVU pg 239.jpg

| caption = Picture of Streets from For remembrance, soldier poets who have fallen in the war

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1886|03|24|df=y}}

| birth_name = John William Streets

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| birth_place = Whitwell, Derbyshire, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1916|07|01|1886|03|24|df=y}}

| death_place = Somme, France

| death_cause = Killed in action

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| occupation = Soldier, poet

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John William Streets (24 March 1886 – 1 July 1916),{{Cite web|title=First World War Poems - Matthew Copse by John William Streets|url=http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/john-william-streets-matthew-copse.htm|access-date=2021-11-26|website=www.greatwar.co.uk}} better known as Will Streets, was an English soldier and poet of the First World War.Victor Piuk, A Dream Within the Dark : A Derbyshire Poet in the Trenches, Derbyshire County Council, 2003

Streets was born in Whitwell, Derbyshire, the son of William and Clara Streets, and was the eldest of twelve children.{{Cite web|title=John William Streets – WW1 Poet|url=http://www.greatwar.co.uk/people/john-william-streets.htm|access-date=7 May 2021|website=www.greatwar.co.uk}} Although academically and artistically gifted, he began work as a miner at the age of fourteen, continuing to educate himself in his spare time.

In August 1914, Streets joined the Sheffield City Battalion (Sheffield Pals). In late 1915 and early 1916 he served in Egypt. The battalion was subsequently transferred to the Western Front. Streets, by this time a sergeant, was wounded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, and subsequently went missing. His body was eventually recovered exactly ten months later, on 1 May 1917, and he is buried at Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps, France. His poems were posthumously published in the same year under the title The Undying Splendour.