Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan kammala makaranta, ya shiga makarantar soja ta Hellenic kuma ya kammala karatunsa a ranar 11 ga Yuli 1901 a matsayin Laftanar Na Biyu. An daukaka shi zuwa laftanar a 1908 da kuma kyaftin din a 1911. Ya yi yaƙi a Yaƙe-yaƙe na Balkan na 1912-1913 a matsayin kwamandan kamfani da kwamandan, kuma an ji masa rauni a Yaƙin Kilkis <unk> Lachanas
Ka yi haƙuri. Bayan yaƙe-yaƙe an haɗa shi a matsayin mai taimakawa na sansanin ga shugabannin aikin soja na Faransa zuwa Girka, Janar Joseph-Paul Eydoux da Étienne de Villaret, kuma an daukaka shi zuwa Manjo (1914).