 Then, the unit commander decided to bury the eagle from atop the flag, while the canvas was wrapped around the body of a troop who snuck through the confusion.The flag was placed back on a pole in Moldavia and took part in the 1917 campaigns.At the end of the war, it was decorated with the Order of Michael the Brave, the Commemorative Cross of the War of 1916–1918 and the Victoria medal.