Sam Hawkins

Captain Sam Hawkins was a UNIT officer who served under Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. He was an ex-boxer (PROSE: The Scales of Injustice) and, before joining UNIT, had served as quartermaster at the vault in Northumberland. (PROSE: The Forgotten Son) He was engaged to Corporal Maisy Hawke when he fought the Silurians at Wenley Moor. (PROSE: The Scales of Injustice)

He searched for a Silurian who was at large in the moorland after Major Baker fired at it in the caves. He was trapped inside the caves as part of a group led by the Brigadier that went down into the caves to search for the Silurians. When a fake wall put their by the Silurians trapped them, Hawkins and the others attempted to free themselves. When Private Steve Robins succumbed to the race memories of the Silurians, Robins tried to strangle Hawkins. The group was later freed when the Third Doctor negotiated with Okdel.

While looking for Private Wright with Sergeant Hart after losing contact with Wright, Hawkins and Hart were ambushed by a Silurian, which killed Hart. Hawkins fired several shots at it, but then returned to the Wenley Moor research facility.

While searching the wreckage of a lab that the Doctor had used to find a cure to the Silurian virus, four Silurians invaded the centre with the Doctor as their prisoner. Hawkins took up a position behind the doorway, and tried to shoot at the Silurians as one of them tried to kill the Brigadier, when they believed the Brigadier was a dangerous soldier. The Silurian instead used its third eye to kill Hawkins. (TV: Doctor Who and the Silurians)

Behind the scenes

 * Hawkins' first name was not given on-screen, only in the novel The Scales of Injustice.
 * In the novelisation, Hawkins is demoted to sergeant.