Background
He was the second son of farmer and butcher Matthew Henry Cundell and Emma Willis of Coley Park farm, near Reading.
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Len Cundell
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He had stables at Chilton in Oxfordshire which were taken over, by compulsory purchase, by the British government about 1937 in order to build Royal Air Force Harwell. A stone marking the end of the runway records that aircraft of Number 38 Group Royal Air Force took off on the night of the 5th of June 1944 with troops of the 6th Airborne Division who were the first British soldiers to land in Normandy in the main assault for the liberation of Europe. After World World War II Royal Air Force Harwell was taken over by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.
Len Cundell moved from the Bungalow stables at Chilton to Blewburton Hall stables at Aston Tirrold.
Ken Cundell was one of the first to recognise Lester Piggot"s outstanding talents
The racehorses could not be kept following the outbreak of World World War World War II Some were given away to local farmers to ride while others had to be shot. Len died suddenly just before Christmas 1939.
