On Wednesday, 26 June, 1929, Horace Hubert Burgess, aged 39, was found hanging in a cowshed at Treadwell House Stables, Epsom.
He had been a jockey and stable lad in France and, his wife and a child having both died in that year, had arrived in Britain a month earlier. He had found employment as a stable lad with Mr Stanley Wootton. Two weeks after starting at Treadwell, Burgess was taken to hospital.
On his discharge, he was put on light work.
During this time he wrote to his sister saying that he was 'fed up with this world'.
On the day of his demise, he said to a stable lad: 'I am sure something snapped in my head this morning'.
