Kammala jumla mai zuwa: An haifi Othonaios a Gytheion a 1879, kuma ya shiga makarantar soja ta Hellenic. Ya shiga cikin gwagwarmayar Macedonia tare da "nom de guerre" na "Kapetan" Palamidis, kuma ya kasance memba na Leagueungiyar Soja. Ya yi yaƙi a Yaƙe-yaƙe na Balkan, kuma ya goyi bayan Eleftherios Venizelos a lokacin National Schism, yana ba da umarnin Rundunar Cretan ta 7 a gaban Macedonia na Yaƙin Duniya na I. Ya kuma shiga cikin tsoma bakin Allied a cikin Yaƙin Basasa na Rasha a 1919 tare da mukamin Kanar. Daga baya, an nada shi Kwamandan Kwamandan na Kydoniai Division kuma ya shiga cikin mamayar gundumar Smyrna a farkon matakan yakin Asia Minor. Bayan rashin nasarar zaben Venizelos a shekarar 1920, an sallame shi daga rundunar kuma ya gudu zuwa
Allies sun mamaye Constantinople, inda ya shiga wasu jami'an Venizelist da yawa.