Promoted to the 2nd Lieutenant in artillery, he served in the capital Vienna, where he completed studies at the Academy of the General Staff (k.u.k.

At the time of the outbreak of World War II he was the commander of the IX Army Corps in Brzesc in the rear operational zone.

Yet soon the situation changed in view of massive enemy air raids and rapid advance of its armoured and mechanized troops.

He also managed to gather remnants of the Polish forces destroyed in the east to Vistula and south-east to Narew into a new grouping, with which he tried to break through towards besieged Warsaw.

In 1969, his remains were exhumed, brought to Poland and re-buried in Kock among the fallen soldiers of the Operation Group Polesie.