Prior to the First Balkan War in 1912, he was the head of the mountain headquarters at Kozjak, near Kumanovo. Before the Kumanovo battle, he got the villagers to rise against the Ottoman government in the region of Kriva Palanka and Kratovo. He led 200 Chetniks against the Turks in the Battle of Kumanovo. He was also wounded there.He also commanded the Chetniks in the Second Balkan War in 1913. At the Battle of Kolubara in World War I, he was the commander of the Brigade of the Gornjače Chetnik Detachment. In the position of Trešnjica near Užice in Bici on the Drina, a grenade had pierced both legs, after which he committed suicide in order not to be caught alive. His death was immortalized in Milosav Jelić's "Srbijanski venac" (Serbian Wreath).