Paul G. Hawkins
Home Town: Sanford, FL
General Orders 81, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Paul G. Hawkins, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bellicourt, France, September 28 – 29, 1918. As a platoon runner, Sergeant Hawkins showed marked personal bravery, repeatedly carrying important messages over shell swept areas, and under heavy machine-gun fire sometimes for a distance of two miles, and, when his section leader became separated from his section, took command and led it with success.
