Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan kammala karatunsa, an ba shi mukamin Laftanar bindiga a ranar 1 ga Satumba, 1911. Wata daya bayan haka, an sanya shi a cikin Danube Field Artillery Regiment. A cikin Yaƙin Balkan na Farko ya riƙe matsayin Laftanar a cikin Yaƙin Balkan na Biyu. Yaƙin Duniya na I ya same shi a matsayin kwamandan baturi na biyu na rukunin farko a cikin Danube Artillery Regiment wani ɓangare na Sojoji na Farko a ƙarƙashin jagorancin Janar Petar Bojović da Janar Živojin Mišić. Bayan karshen yakin Kolubara
a ranar 28 ga Fabrairu 1915 an daukaka shi zuwa matsayin kyaftin din bindiga (na biyu) kuma an canza shi zuwa kwamandan baturi a matsayin taimako ga Sojojin Montenegrin. Ya riƙe wannan matsayi a Yaƙin Mojkovac yayin koma baya zuwa Shkodra. A Shkodra an kama shi a ranar 9 ga Janairu 1916 kuma aka kai shi sansanin Grednig inda ya kasance har zuwa ƙarshen Yaƙin Duniya na Farko.