sentences:  Street also sat in the now abolished Vice-Admiralty Court, first established in New South Wales during the time of Governor Arthur Phillip to deal with maritime disputes.In 1915, one of his sons, Lieutenant Lawrence Whistler Street, for whom Sir Laurence Whistler Street was named, was killed in action in Gallipoli serving the Allied forces in World War I. Lawrence volunteered for national service in August 1914, making him one of the earliest of his generation to do so.In 1918, Street was appointed the Chief Judge in Equity.