Born on 6 March 1914 in Ruda Pabianicka.He underwent flying training being called up for military service to 4 Air Wing in Torun. He was then posted to the Air Force Training Centre No.1 at Deblin. During the September 1939 war he was evacuated to Romania, from where he got to France. In France he was called up for the newly forming Polish air force. In the French German war he fought within a section of Groupe de Chasse III/9 near Lyon and then at Dijon. Being evacuated to Great Britain, he underwent conversion training. Then he flew sorties in the first line-up of No. 306 (Polish) Fighter Squadron City of Torun. On 16 August 1941 he shot down in a combat a German Bf 109. He was also credited with a kill of another aircraft a Fw 190 on 9 October 1942. On 31 December 1942 he shot down another Fw 190; that was the 500th aircraft shot down by Polish pilots in the West. In between operation sorties he was testing prototypes of RAF
fighters. He was also an instructor for flying at an OTU. From November 1943 he was flying again in No. 306 Squadron. On 7 June 1944 he shot down two Fw 190s and a Bf 109 probably. On 25 June 1944 he was transferred to No. 315
(Polish) Fighter Squadron City of Deblin to the post of a flight commander. On 18 August 1944 he was credited with kill of 2 and 1/2 of German Fw 190s. He also shot down 4 and 1/2 of V-1 missiles. On 20 October 1944 he was tranferred to the staff post at the Polish Air Force HQ. On 17 July 1945 was appointed as the commander of No. 309 (Polish) Fighter Squadron Czerwiensk Land. He took the command over from S/Ldr Antoni Glowacki, and remained at that post until 6 January1947 when the squadron was disbanded.

For his combat merits he was decorated with:

Silver Cross of Virtuti Militari War Order No. 09678 awarded on 10 February 1943, Cross of Valour and three bars, and Distinguished Flying Cross awarded on 9 February1945. After demobilization he remained in Great Britain.

For a number of years he had a farm. He was the president of a breeder sassociation. Died on 28 January 1990.