Education
He graduated in Medicine in 1908, and working as a surgeon at Bendigo Base Hospital, before going into private practice.
He graduated in Medicine in 1908, and working as a surgeon at Bendigo Base Hospital, before going into private practice.
Williams entered the University of Melbourne in March 1904, where he was resident at Trinity College. He continued his college football career during 1910 and 1911, when he was a "dashing half-back" with the South Bendigo football team In 1909 he joined the Number.
2 Field Ambulance as Captain, and on going to Bendigo in 1910 he was posted to Kitchener Camp, later being attached to the 67th (Bendigo) Infantry as a supernumerary medical officer
With the introduction of the universal military training scheme in Australia during 1911, he was given command of the B Section, 17th Australian Army Medical Corps. In 1914 he was promoted to Major, and assumed command of the whole Corps in 1915.
He enlisted in Bendigo in July 1915, and entered camp on 24 August that year. He saw service with the Field Ambulance in Egypt before being transferred to France.
Williams was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1916 and was in command of the 1st Field Ambulance when he was shot through the lung by an "indiscriminate sniper".
He died of the wounds on 13 March 1917. A few days later, the Australian Surgeon-General, Major-General Sir Neville Howse, Venture capital, paid tribute to Williams by stating that, "everyone deplores the loss of a brilliant, popular young officer". In October 1917, the British War Office confirmed that Williams had been mentioned in dispatches on 9 April.