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Elder of the two brothers (Paul and Matt) who served in WWII, Captain Allan Paul Williams (Service Nos:N42898/NX146765) initially served with 53/3 Battalion in the Militia, enlisting on 15 October 1936 as a Private, and was a Captain on 5 October 1941 when he enlisted in the ACMF. Captain Williams marched out to 14 Australian Infantry Training Battalion, and was appointed T/Major on 3 February 1942. T/Major Williams was attached to 3 Infantry Battalion on 17 May 1942 when he embarked from Sydney for Port Moresby on board SS Van Heutz. On 17 February 1943, T/Major Williams transferred 'in the field' to the AIF, and was attached to 2/3 Infantry Battalion on 15 July 1943 when he embarked from Malaita for Sydney. In 1943, T/Major Williams served with 3/22 Australian Infantry Battalion and was attached for duty as Brigade Major to HQ 2 Australian Infantry Training Brigade. On 6 September 1944 he was transferred to Reserve of Officers with Honorary rank of Major, and was attached to HQ 2 Australian Infantry Training Brigade at Discharge on 7 September 1944.

Paul was born in Tumut, New South Wales in 1912, eldest of four children of Allan Paul Williams Snr (b1889 in Gundagai, New South Wales) and Ellen (Nellie) Josephine Shaw (b1886 in Tumut, New South Wales). Allan and Nellie married in 1911 in Tumut, and lived there, in Harden via Murrumburrah and at Wattle Creek via Tamworht before settling in Sydney in the 1930s - Allan was a Railways Employee, and from 1930 was a Locomotive Inspector.

Paul was a Teacher in Mittagong, and in Newcastle in 1937 married Dorothy Joyce Newton (b1913 in Newcastle, New South Wales) - Dorothy worked as a Clerk in Newcastle. Following his Discharge from the Army, Paul and Dorothy settled in Sydney where they raised their family and Paul worked as a Teacher. Paul died in 1993 and Dorothy in 1997.