Can awards be traced back to actions?

[JamesM]

If an individual is known, and, if you know the awards he had, is there any way of finding out what military actions he was in to win said awards?

Here is what I have on Hermann Starke;


Leutnant 20.11.00/31.1.00.1 in Feldart Rgt 17
Oberleutnant 18.10.09 L42l in Feldart Rgt 69 and to General Staff
Hauptmann 18.10.13 G3g in General Staff
Major 18.5.18 #5 (final Reichsheer seniority) Reichswehr Ministry Training Section (T4) 1923, Staff of Art Rgt 3 '24
Oberstleutnant 1.1.25 Deputy CO Fotress Königsberg '28
Oberst 1.2.29 Chief of Artillery Wehrkreis I 1.10.31 to retirement

WW1 awards (none pre-war)

EK1 & 2
Prussian Hohenzollern House Order 3 with Swords gazetted 19.4.17 (so awarded months to weeks earlier)
Bavarian Military Merit Order 4 with Swords (not on published rolls)
Baden Order of Zähringen Lion-Knight 2nd Class with oakleaves and Swords 9 February 1917 as "on General Staff of an Infantry Division"
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Order of the White Falcon-Knight 2nd with Swords (596 awarded WW1)
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Wilhelmskreuz (362 awarded WW1)
Prussian XXV Years Service Cross.

Cheers,
James

[Miha Grcar]

If you have only awards then it's imposible to be able to trace them to the action which deserved it. Sorry.

best,
Nibelung

[JamesM]

Nibelung,

Thanks for the reply. All I have to go on is the info above, which gives his name "Hermann Starke" and his positions and awards. I would have thought that given the above information, that there might be a chance to piece together where and for what he recieved these awards.

Cheers,
James