 On 23 April the 1st Special Infantry Brigade transferred to the Châlons-sur-Marne area, overseen by général Henri Gouraud of the French Fourth Army.French President Raymond Poincaré, impressed by the state of the Russian camp, awarded General Lokhvitsky the Commander of the Legion of Honor.The 1st Brigade was then re-deployed further east up the Marne valley between Suippes and Auberive at the end of June 1916.