Corporal Williams was a member of Battery C, 15th Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in South Korea on 11 August 1950. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.

Williams was awarded the Purple Heart, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal.