The Giles family were pioneers in the Northern Territory and managed stations there, notably Elsey Station which was used as the setting for We of the Never Never by Jeannie Gunn. Harold Stanage Giles (1890-1960) married Lilian Doris Dunlop in 1924. Giles was the manager of Elsey Station (home of Mrs Aeneas Gunn) from 1928 to the 1954 (excluding the years 1946-1950). He also managed Hodgson Station.