After the outbreak of World War I in 1914‐1918, on 01.09.1914, as a student of the Theological Seminary in Kraków, joined the Polish Legions of the Austro–Hungarian Imperial Army. Served in the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Infantry Regiment. Already in 10.1914, the Regiment was sent to Hungary, to the Carpathian Front in the town of Sygheit Marmatiei. The Carpathian Arc became a front line in the fights between Austria–Hungary and Russia, after the Russians pushed the Austro–Hungarian troops out of Eastern Galicia, part of the crown land of the Germ. Königreich Galizien und Lodomerien (Eng. Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria). In Sygheit Marmatiei (today Romania), on the western side of the Carpathians, Russian Cossacks were on the prowl. The Regiment managed to repell and push them back. Then it crossed the Pantyrska Pass, in the Gorgan range in the eastern Carpathians, and went along the Nadvirna Bystrytsya river valley (towards Stanislaviv), capturing Rafailivka, Zelena, Pasichna, and on 24.10.1914 Nadvirna. After a skirmish near Nazavyziv, it took part in a lost battle near Molodkiv near Nadvirna on 29.10.1914. For the next month, it defended the captured positions along the Bystrytsya River. On 26.11.1914, it was transferred to the town of Zhabe in Hutsulshchyna, in the Carpathian Chornohora range. After several days of fighting, the Regiment was transferred c. 120 km to the north–west, back to Transcarpathia, on the eastern edge of the Eastern Bieszczady Mountains. There, it took part in heavy fighting in the Volove Pole triangle. (today Mizhhirya) – Csushka – Maydanka (today Maydan). His battalion fought particularly fierce battles for control of Kleva Mountain. Then the Regiment was transferred to Southern Bukovina, to the eastern section of the Carpathian Front, where the Russians began a dynamic offensive. There — „at an altitude of 1,700 meters, amidst snowstorms, in twenty–degree frost, trudging through snow up to their knees, in an area devoid of quarters, with frequent bivouacs in the open air, where the guards often froze to death in their positions” — it took part in the Battle of Cârlibaba on 18‐22.01.1915. The victory thwarted the Russians' plans and opened the way to central Bukovina and back to Eastern Galicia. In a combat march of over 100 km north, the Regiment — through the Breaza, Moldova, Lopushna villages — reached Snyatyn on the Prut. From there it was transported to the Tlumach–Nyzhniv line, about 25 km east of Stanislaviv, which was retaken by the Austrians on 20.02.1915. There it took part in defensive battles with the Russians on 03.03.1920, ultimately holding Tlumach. On 15.03.1915 the regiment went to Kolomyia for a rest.

Was there when the efforts to form the 4th Infantry Regiment of the Polish Legions were being finalized. In 03‐04.1915, it began to be formed in the vicinity of Piotrków Trybunalski. Its initial core was to be made up of soldiers of the 2nd Regiment resting in Kolomyia. Was then among those delegated to Piotrków. Was there when the 2nd and 3rd Brigades of the Polish Legions were formally formed on 08.05.1915 — the 4th Regiment became part of the 3rd Brigade. On 30.05.1915, the ceremonial inauguration of the Regiment took place — it happened at one of the decisive moments of the entire World War I, a few weeks after the Russian defeat on 03.05.1915 near Gorlice, which caused the collapse of the front and an increasingly rapid Russian withdrawal to the east. The Regiment set off for the front on 15.07.1914, crossed the Vistula and reached Majdan Borzechowski, where fought their first skirmish with the Russians. On 30.07.1915, one of the Regiment's squadrons entered Lublin, abandoned by the Russians, despite the ban of the Austro–Hungarian command, but inspired by Jozeph Piłsudski, commander of the 1st Brigade of the Legions. On 03.08.1915, a battle took place near Jastków, c. 10 km north of Lublin, on the Lublin–Warsaw road. The dug‐in Russians defended themselves effectively, but withdrew in the face of pressure. On 06‐07.08.1915, the Russians put up resistance near the villages of Kamionka and Kozłówka, c. 25 km north of Lublin.

Near Kamionka got wounded. Treated in Opava (Czech Republic), and from 22.09.1915 in the Convalescent Home of the Polish Legions in Kamieńsk. On 16.10.1915 returned to active service, this time to the 1st Artillery Regiment of the Polish Legions. The Polish Legions were then concentrated on the Styr River in Volyn, c. 70 km north of Lutsk, taking over responsibility for part of the front line, which settled there — causing, among other things, the panicky escape of c. 3 million Russian officials, teachers, military supporters, Orthodox clergy from the occupied territories of the Polish Republic into the depths of Russia, the so‐called bezhenstvo. Bloody battles continued until 12.1915, i.a. on 07‐08.11.1915, the battle of Lisov in Volyn (also known as the Battle of Bielgov) took place, after which the front stabilized in positional fighting for about half a year. On 03.06.1916, transferred back to the 2nd Infantry Regiment, as part of the 2nd Legion Brigade. A day later, the biggest offensive of the Imperial Russian Army against the armies of the Central Powers during World War I, known as the Brusilov Offensive, began. The main direction of attack in the north was Kovel, and then Lviv (in the south Lviv and Stanislaviv). The Legions found themselves on the strategic line of the Russian attack. On 20‐21.06.1915, the 2nd Regiment defended the position near Hruzyatyn, after which it was transferred north to Haluziya, where it took part in the largest battle fought by the Polish Legions, near Kostyukhnivka, on 05‐06.07.1915 — on the left wing of the Polish defence line. The Legions tactically lost the battle — 5,500 Polish soldiers held back the attack of 13,000 Russians — but they prevented the front from collapsing on the defended section — at the cost of 2,000 dead and wounded — and the Russians did not achieve their intended goals (including not capturing Kowel). The retreat of the Central Powers troops began, but it was limited in nature, and the army retained its offensive potential. The Legions also withdrew. The 2nd Regiment fought its last battle near Rudka Mirynska on 03.08.1916, on the Stokhiv River, after which it was transported to Pułtusk via Baranavichi in Belarus and Zambrów, and transferred to German service, armament and supplies.

The Legions' epic was coming to an end. Events took place at that time, the common denominator of which were efforts to establish a Polish army independent of the Central Powers. As early as 09.07.1916, Brigadier Joseph Piłsudski resigned from command of the Legions (accepted on 26.09.1916), expressing his opposition to the non‐recognition of the Legions as the Polish army. On 20.09.1916, the Polish Legions were reformed by the Austro–Hungarian command into the Polish Auxiliary Corps PKP, with the hope of increasing the number of Polish recruits into Imperial Army. On 05.11.1916, the Central Powers issued a proclamation containing the promise of establishing a Germ. Königreich Polen (Eng. Polish Kingdom), which was to remain in unspecified „liaison with both allied powers”, i.e. another attempt to draw Poles into the army of the Central Powers Half a year later the so‐called oath crisis took palce, which had its direct source in the decision of the Austro–Hungarian leadership of 10.04.1917, in accordance with the provisions of the act of 05.11.1916, to incorporate the PKP into the Germ. Polnische Wehrmacht (Eng. Polish Armed Forces), created in the aforementioned Germ. Königreich Polen, under the command of the Governor–General of the Germ. Kaiserlich–deutsche Generalgouvernement Warschau (Eng. Imperial–German General Government of Warsaw), i.e. the part of the Germ. Königreich occupied by the Germans, Hans Hartwig von Beseler. This caused Polish soldiers from the Russian partition (so‐called Królewiacy), mainly from the 1st and 3rd PKP Brigades, to refuse — when called upon by Joseph Piłsudski, from 15.01.1917 in charge of the War Department of the Provisional Council of State of the Germ. Königreich Polen — to take on 09.07.1917 the required oath of allegiance to the Central Powers. On 21.07.1917 Joseph Piłsudski was arrested, and a month later the Provisional Council of State ceased to function. The 2nd Brigade, under the command of Colonel Joseph Haller, and most of his Regiment took the oath and remained within the PKP, but under the command of Austria–Hungary. In 08.1917 the Regiment was transferred to Przemyśl, and then to Bukovina, in the vicinity of Chernivtsi on the Prut River. After several clashes with the Russians, it was moved to reserve. There, information reached the Polish units about the treaty signed on 09.02.1918 in Brest by the Central Powers with the so‐called Ukrainian People's Republic URR — established on the territories taken over from the Russians after the fall of tsarism in 02.1917 and the Bolshevik coup in October 1917 — which declared the independence of Ukraine on 22.01.1918. The information published indicated that the Central Powers, without agreement with the Poles, recognised Ukraine and granted it, among other things, Chełm region, leaving Eastern Galicia in the hands of Austria–Hungary. The 2nd Brigade decided then to cross the front line to the Ukrainian side. On 15.02.1918, part of the Brigade broke through the Austrian troops in the town of Ridkivtsi near Chernivtsi and crossed the provisional border. Was one of those who did not succeed and was arrested by the Austrians. Interned by the Austrians in the camp–prison in Sygheut Marmatiei, where his legionnaire history had once begun.

In 03.1918 released but immediately re‐conscripted into the Austrian army and sent to the Italian front, where the Austro–Hungarian military authorities, distrustful of Poles, used them mainly in the rear, in auxiliary and supplementary units — even during the last major battle, the Second Battle of the Piave, 15—23.06.1918. Too many Polish soldiers deserted and went over to the Italian side. On 16.10.1918 the monarch of Austria–Hungary, Charles I Habsburg of Austria, announced the Germ. Völkermanifest (Eng. People's Manifesto) — „To My Faithful Austrian Peoples” — announcing the transformation of the Monarchy into a federal state composed of autonomous national „state organisms”. This did not prevent the disintegration of the Monarchy and e.g. on 28.10.1918 in Prague independent Czechoslovakia was proclaimed, and on 30.10.1918 Polish politicians of Austria–Hungary announced the secession of the crown land of the Germ. Königreich Galizien und Lodomerien, or Galicia, and its incorporation into the future Polish state. In this situation, on 03.11.1918, a ceasefire was announced in the Italian–Austrian war. Returned then to his homeland, near Żywiec. There, on 30.10.1918, the Polish Military Organisation POW, which had been established shortly before, and which recognised the political and military authority of Commander Joseph Piłsudski, disarmed a detachment of guards guarding the City Office, and a day later, the Austrian military company stationed in Żywiec.

On 06.11.1918, joined the Polish military units that were being formed in Żywiec. Five days later, the Allies and the Germans, in a staff wagon in Compiègne, at the headquarters of French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, signed an armistice and ceasefire — which de facto meant the end of World War I. On the same day, Charles I of Habsburg announced his resignation from participation in the government (although did not abdicate). On the same day, the Regency Council, operating in the territory of Germ. Königreich Polen, occupied by Germany and Austria–Hungary, transferred supreme authority over the army to Brigadier Joseph Piłsudski and appointed him Commander‐in‐Chief of the Polish Army — which de facto meant the rebirth of the Polish state. This also meant that from then on served in the Polish Army.

In 05.1919, was released from the army. Returned to the Theological Seminary in Kraków.

In the summer of 1920 joined the Polish Army again, and during the Polish–Russian War served in Medical Company No. 5.

Demobilized on 15.11.1920.

After the German and Russian invasion of Poland in 09.1939 and the start of World War II, after the beginning of the Russian occupation, arrested on 04.11.1939 by the Russians in his parish, in the village of Nadvirna, the same one in which liberation from the Russians participated with the Polish Legions in 1914.

On 17.11.1939 (according to other sources on 17/27.07.1940) sentenced to 8 years in Russian slave concentration camps of forced labor — Gulag.

Sent to the ITL SorokLag camp — where slaved on the construction of the Sorokka (Belomorsk) — Obozerskaya railway line, and then to the Obozerskaya sub–camp on the White Sea.

Finally imprisoned in the ITL OnegLag camp near the village of Maloshuyka on the White Sea, in the Arkhangelsk region.

After the German attack in 06.1941 on the erstwhile ally, the Russians, as a result of an amnesty for Polish prisoners, released in 09.1941.

On c. 06.10.1941 made his way to Tatishchev, c. 30 km from Saratov on the Volga, where the 5th Vilnius Infantry Division was being formed, to become part of the Polish Armed Forces PSZ, under the command of General Vladislav Anders, formed in Russia on the basis of the Sikorski–Mayski agreement of 30.07.1941. Became chaplain of the 5th Sanitary Battalion.

In 02‐03.1942 the Division was transported to the Jalalabad region in Kirghizia, and on 19.03.1942 the evacuation of PSZ from Russia began, which was completed in 08.1942.

Through Krasnovodsk (today Turkmenbashi in Turkmenistan), the Caspian Sea, Pahlavi (today Bandar–e Anzali) in British–occupied Iran, it reached Khanaqin in eastern Iraq, right on the border with Iran.

There, as a result of the reorganization of the PSZ, became chaplain of the 5th Sanitary Company (5th Sanitary Evacuation Center) of the 5th Borderland Infantry Division, formed in 03.1943, which from 21.07.1943 was incorporated into the newly created 2nd Polish Corps.

At the same time, became auxiliary chaplain of the 6th Lviv Infantry Brigade, which was part of the 5th Division.

In 04.1943 the Division moved to Kirkuk in northern Iraq, where it was to protect the oil fields, then in 08‐09.1943 moved to the territory of the British Mandate of Palestine, i.e. the area referred to as Palestine, which was under British control by decision of the League of Nations — to Maghazi / Nuiserat (today in the Gaza Strip). Then on 01.1944 to El‐Kassassin, c. 35 km west of Ismaili in Egypt.

On 21.02.1944 the Division landed in Taranto, on the „heel” of the Apennine peninsula. The Italian campaign of the Polish Armed Forces began.

By 28.03.1944 the Division was transported to the Italian front, to Castel San Vincenzo, where for several months it took part in positional fighting on the line of the Sangro River, which was part of the German fortification line known as the Gustav Line.

The Gustav Line was the most important line of defense of the center of Italy, protecting access to Rome, and its key point was Monte Cassino Hill.

There, on 11‐19.05.1944, the Division took part in the battle for this hill, ending with its capture.

For this success it paid with the lives of 2,174 soldiers, which constituted over 15% of the personnel.

Then the Division made it to the Adriatic coast and reached Ancona.

On 17‐18.07.1944, it captured the city.

From there, it made it to the last major German defense line in Italy, the so‐called Gothic Line, running across the Apennine Peninsula, along the Emilian Apennines, roughly between Rimini and Pisa. After several clashes, the front stopped for the winter.

On 09.04.1944, the Division resumed its offensive along the Senio River. Ended it — and the entire campaign — with the capture of Bologna on 21.04.1945. A few weeks later, military operations in World War II ended.

In 07.1945, the Division was regrouped south of Ancona, on the Adriatic Sea.

Was then the chaplain at the 5th Field Evacuation Hospital.

Died in a car accident while ministering to soldiers of the 2nd Polish Corps.

Was buried on cemetery Polish soldiers in Loreto.