He was born into a peasant family as the son of Wojciech Bociański and Wiktoria Bociańska née Stefaniak.

[2] In 1914, he was called up to the Imperial German Army, served as a second lieutenant of artillery on the Western Front, was wounded in the battle of Verdun, was also decorated and promoted several times.

[6] There, on his initiative, a monument to the fallen soldiers was built in the shape of an arch with the chapel of the Mother of God on the top, later called the Minsk Gate of Dawn.

It was there that Bociański introduced the saber to the ceremony of appointment to the first officer rank, a custom that has been maintained until modern times.

In the order application, General Kazimierz Fabrycy wrote about him, thatColonel Bociański, in each position he held, was distinguished by outstanding initiative and, as an eminently ideological officer, his work brought great benefits to the army.

[9] Among other things, on 11 February 1936, he issued a memorial that assumed the limitation of the rights of the Lithuanians and Belarusians (this document was published in 1939 by the printing house in Kaunas).

[10][11] He interfered in religious affairs, tried to oust the Belarusian Marianist Fathers of Druya by initiating the erection of a new Roman Catholic parish; finally he displaced them without waiting for the decision of the clerical hierarchy.

[17] On September 17, 1939, on the border bridge at Cheremosh in Kuty, he blocked the way for the Commander-in-Chief, Edward Rydz-Śmigły, who intended to leave the country.

[19] While living in exile, he did not get involved in the political life of emigrant circles, but kept in touch with veterans' organizations and wrote occasional articles.

[22] The original orders and decorations of Ludwik Bociański are permanently attached to the pedestal of the sculpture of Our Lady of Kozielsk in the St Andrew Bobola Church in London, where they were placed as thanksgiving gifts.