He also participated in the Southern Russia Intervention by the Allies, on board the battleship Kilkis, and in the Asia Minor Campaign, again on Hydra, and finally as captain of the torpedo boat Smyrni.
[2] After the disastrous end of the Asia Minor Campaign and the 11 September 1922 Revolution, he was dismissed from active duty, before finally retiring in October 1923 with the rank of captain.
Promoted to captain on 29 March 1934 and rear admiral on 30 December 1938, he served as commandant-general of the naval training establishments in 1935, of light craft in 1937, and of submarines in 1937–1939.
In April 1941, he briefly served as Chief of the Navy General Staff, shortly before Athens was captured by German troops.
[2] He remained in Greece during the Axis occupation of the country, serving in the Navy General Directorate of the collaborationist governments' Ministry of National Defence.