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Tom Cole


Born
in London, The United Kingdom
February 28, 1906

Died
December 09, 1995


Thomas Ernest Cole OAM (28 February 1906 – 9 December 1995) was a labourer, stockman, buffalo hunter, crocodile shooter, coffee grower and writer who rode the Australian Northern Territory outback.

Cole was born on 28 February 1906 in London, the eldest son of Ernest Cole and Adelaide Arundel.[3] In 1923, after a falling out with his father and following World War I, he sailed on board Ormuz to Australia.

Cole has been described as the original Australian crocodile dundee, a buffalo shooter, a crocodile hunter and a horseman of the Australian outback.

Cole had started out in Queensland in the Blackall Ranges as a rouseabout or stockman, moving from here to Lake Nash in the Northern Territory and then onto droving cattle down the Birdsville del ...more

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