John Williams
John Williams, a veteran of both the Boer War and World War I, became a guard with the Canadian Penitentiary Service on March 11, 1920. In the mid 1920s construction of a new sewage treatment plant began at the Stony Mountain Penitentiary (then called the Manitoba Penitentiary). On June 26, Williams was supervising an inmate work-gang blasting rock when a laid charge failed to detonate. Williams allowed an "inordinate amount of time" to pass before he removed the inmates to a safe area and investigated. Just as Williams reached the charge it detonated, killing him instantly.
Williams was buried with full military honours in the "Field of Honour" at Brookside Cemetery in Winnipeg. He was survived by his wife and four children.
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