Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Thomas Streeton, a domestic gardener, born on the 21st January 1839 in Croxton Kerrial, Leicestershire and was baptised on the 17th February 1839 in the Parish Church, Croxton Kerrial and his wife Sarah Ann Streeton (nee Ratcliffe, married on the 26th December 1864 in the Parish Church, Croxton Kerrial), born 1842 in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire. Thomas Goodwin Streeton, was a schoolboy, and was born on the 30th August 1876 in Croxton Kerrial and was baptised on the 15th October 1876 in the Parish Church, Croxton Kerrial, his siblings were, Francis William, a domestic servant and footman, born on the 27th March 1865 in Thistleton, Rutland, Lucy Ellen, a schoolgirl, born on the 1st January 1868, George Robert Hall, a schoolboy, born on the 20th May 1874, Beatrice Mary, born 1879 and Agnes Edith, born on the 17th January 1881, the latter four siblings were all born in Croxton Kerrial, in April 1881 the family home was at Roses Town End, Croxton Kerrial. In April 1891 Thomas was employed as an agricultural labourer and was residing in the family home at Roses Town End, Croxton Kerrial, together with his mother and siblings, Beatrice, a schoolgirl, Agnes, a schoolgirl and James Ratcliffe, a schoolboy, was born on the 20th December 1882 in Croxton Kerrial and was baptised on the 11th February 1883 in the Parish Church, Croxton Kerrial. In March 1901 Thomas was employed as a footman porter and was residing as a servant at Epping Upland, Essex. On the 25th July 1914, Thomas married Nellie Coy in St. Peter’s Church, Notting Hill, Middlesex, Nellie was born on the 27th July 1886 in Newark, Nottinghamshire. They had a son, John Francis, born on the 19th July 1915 in Kensington, Middlesex.
Thomas also had the following older siblings, Alice Ann, born on the 22nd August 1866 in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire and Sarah, born on the 20th February 1871 in Croxton Kerrial.
Thomas’s Army enlistment documents do not survive, all that is known of his military service is that he enlisted as a Territorial into the County of London Regiment, being allotted the service number 6864, and was posted as a Rifleman to the 1/16th Battalion of the County of London Regiment (Queen’s Westminster Rifles and it was with this unit that he first entered the theatre of war in France on the 17th September 1916. Under the Army Council Instruction of 1917 that promulgated a new numbering system for all Territorial Force units, he was allotted the service number 553313. He was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
Thomas enlisted at the same time as his younger brother James, sharing consecutive service numbers, and both brothers were killed in action on the same day, the 14th April 1917 at Heninel, France. The War Diary entries for the date of their death have not survived.