The men gathered at the Dhiiyaan Aboriginal Centre from Thursday to Saturday reminiscing and attending events and workshops.

A community yarn, morning tea and an Elders community luncheon was held on Thursday, following was a workshop on trauma and emotional wellbeing on Friday.

One of the survivors, uncle Angus Loaf, aged in his 80s was in KBH in the 1940s. He was taken from his family and community at Menindee, a small town in the far-west of NSW located on the banks of the Darling River.

He was placed in KBH along with one of his brothers, George Loaf, who was freed from the institution four years before Angus.

When he was released from the institution in December 1948, Uncle Angus spent his life working on properties and ended up living around the Moree area.

He says he never returned to his community and never saw his biological family again.

KBH representatives were assisted by the Munro family and Aunty Pam Tighe of Moree the Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation (KBHAC), which is run by the KBH men, was able to locate uncle Angus who was residing in a Moree nursing home.

Most of the KBH uncles who knew him had no knowledge of where uncle Angus was or what happened to him and thought he had possibly passed away.

Around 600 Aboriginal boys, as well as a small number of girls in its first years, had their childhood destroyed at the hands of staff and management of KBH, which operated 1924-1970.

The boys were stripped of their names, given numbers and denied their childhood. The abuse and trauma that happened in KBH was also hidden from the public but the truth must be told as the KBH uncles still carry the emotional and physical scars of their experience.