Francis John MacCunn was born in Liverpool in 1888, the son of Professor J MacCunn of Liverpool University and a former Snell Exhibitioner. Francis studied at Rugby School and then went to the University of Oxford, Queen's College where he graduated BA BLitt in Classics and History. He then worked as a lecturer in the University of Glasgow's History Department and published a volume titled, 'The Contemporary English View of Napoleon'.

He had been a member of the Officers Training Corps at both Oxford and Glasgow and was therefore early into battle, joining the Camerons and soon becoming a Captain. He was killed exactly one year to the day after joining the Battalion at the Battle of Loos on the 26th September 1915.

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