At the beginning of World War I, on 03.08.1914, drafted into the German Imperial Army. Served in Wrocław, training recruits. Then was sent to the Russian–German front. His unit was near Inowłodz, c. 60 km east of Łódź.

It was then, still in 1914, after the great Battle of Łódź in 11‐12.1914, one of the largest operations of the entire war (initially, c. 520,000 people were to participate in it altogether, and according to official statistics, on the German side 25,818 were killed and 76,451wounded, and on the Russian side 25,544 and 117,882 soldiers respectively — not counting the missing: the maximum „losses” per day amounted to 7,000 soldiers, which is twice as much as in the Battle of Verdun on the Western Front), the front moved east and stabilized for several months on the Pilica river line. There were clashes over maintaining this line, in particular at the river crossings, including in the vicinity of Inowłódz, which was almost completely destroyed at the turn of 1914‐1915.

Perished there, in unknown circumstances — both sides used not only artillery, but also fired rifles, and there were even hand‐to‐hand fights with bayonets.

It is worth noting that both the Germans and the Russians used thousands of Polish soldiers in their ranks, and it is likely that the weapon — a bullet, a bayonet — that took his life was in the hands of a Pole serving in the Russian army.