Hawkins represented his home county of Somerset against South Africa in 1906.
On 10 July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, Hawkins shot a German officer manning a machine gun that had fired upon the position his company had taken up.
He spent a night hidden in a shell crater in no man's land with eight other men from his company.
He showed great bravery until severely wounded.”[4] His decoration was awarded at Buckingham Palace in 1917 by King George V.[3] Hawkins married in 1908.
After leaving the Glamorgan Constabulary, Hawkins took over the Tynewydd Hotel, Porth.