It was valor that was paid for by flesh and blood. The honors gained by the 12th Division in a few months of trench warfare⁠—one V.C. , sixteen D.S.C. ’s, forty-five Military Crosses, thirty-four Military Medals⁠—were won by the loss in casualties of more than fourteen thousand men. That is to say, the losses of their division in that time, made up by new drafts, was 100 percent; and the Hohenzollern took the highest toll of life and limbs.