He fought in Batalion Zośka during Operation Arsenal and died in the Warsaw Uprising.

[2][3] He also appeared a number of times in Polish literature, most notably in Aleksander Kamiński's Stones for the Rampart.

His father- Marcel Gawin was the owner of the company Pomoc szkolna.

[7] After the start of World War II, he began his service in the Gray Ranks.

[8] He fought in the Warsaw Uprising as a chief commander of the first crew- "Felek"[clarification needed] of the Batalion Zośka and died on 23 September 1944, during army's backup from Czarniakowo.