[citation needed] After the outbreak of World War I, on 20 August 1914, he would join the Polish Legions.
[2] He would take part in the Carpathian campaign and the Battle of Mołotków and during this time he would graduate from cadet school.
[2] Upon the war's end, he would join the newly formed Polish army as a lieutenant and then as a captain commanding the 6th Company of the 4th Infantry Regiment in Kraków.
Then he left for the United Kingdom to go to the University of Oxford, where he would study political economics for a year and a half.
In 1922, he would enter the Sejm on behalf of this party, for the 5th District (which included Białystok, Wołkowysk and Sokółka).
On 26 May 1923, he would leave the PSL - Piast, together with a group of Jan Dąbski's MPs, in protest against the party's entering into an alliance with National Democracy (the so-called Lanckorona Pact).
From 15 May to 15 June 1927, he would be the editor-in-chief of the SCh press organ, "Życie Chłopskiego" or in English, "Peasant Life".
He would be active in the Polish community there and in 1948 he became the district secretary of the Union of Poles in Brazil in São Paulo.