Owen Wyles was removed from his aunt's care and sent to the Palm Island dormitories. Wyles believed his mother was dead until he was twenty years old and his mother returned from the mainland where she had been sent to work by the authorities.
Wyles' story was recorded by the National Library of Australia for the Bringing Them Home oral history project and appeared in the associated publication Many Voices: Reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation edited by Doreen Mellor and Anna Haebich (2002).
