His family later moved to Wangaratta, Victoria where the elder George Cole bred and sold pig's trotters and operated a dairy farm.

[9] In 1909, Cole, then aged 17, travelled to Melbourne and found work at the Vine Hotel in Richmond.

[11] During World War I, Cole briefly acted in military propaganda films[12] and helped recruit soldiers.

During which they travelled out of Australia to the Philippines, Malaya (now split into Malaysia and Singapore), Borneo, India, Russia, China, Japan and England.

He returned to Australia in November 1940, entertaining army troops in Queensland and settling in New South Wales.

A financial member of the Variety Artists' Federation of Great Britain,[15] he continued to actively tour and in 1954, he visited South America.

[4] Cole died on 20 January 1978[21] at his eleven-room house located in Bellevue Hill, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, which he purchased post-World War II.