Wing Commander John Scott Williams (1893–1944) was a Canadian military officer and aviator. In 1921, he organized the

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. Williams was born at Goldenville,

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, in 1893. Williams died in a hospital in

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on 1 January 1944, age 51, after a lengthy illness.

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