Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whanau a Othonaios i Gytheion i te tau 1879, ka uru ki te Hellenic Military Academy. I uru ia ki te Pakanga o Maketonia me te "nom de guerre" o "Kapetan" Palamidis, a he mema ia o te Rōpū Hāhi. I whawhai ia i nga Pakanga o Balkan, a i uru atu ia ki a Eleftherios Venizelos i te wa o te National Schism, e whakahau ana i te 7th Cretan Regiment i te aroaro o Maketonia o te Pakanga Tuatahi o te Ao. I uru hoki ia ki te whakauru a nga Kaitoha ki te Pakanga a Ruhia i te tau 1919 me te taumata o te Koronela. I muri mai, i tohua ia hei Kaiwhakahaere Whakahaere o te Wahanga o Kydoniai ka uru ki te nohoanga o te rohe o Smyrna i nga waahanga tuatahi o te Campaign Asia Minor. Whai muri i te hinganga o Venizelos i te pooti i te tau 1920, ka tukuna ia mai i te ope, ka rere ki
I noho a Constantinople i te Allied, i reira i uru atu ai ia ki etahi atu rangatira Venizelist.