CHARLES BUCKLES FALLS PREMIERS AU FEU / FIRST TO FIGHT. 381/2x28 inches. Condition A-: repaired tears and creases in margins; writing in right margin. Taking a proud line from the Marine Corps hymn, "First to fight," which has also become a motto for the Corps, Falls adds a whimsical, cocky dash of French perhaps to educate the Marines going off to France what they would need to say to the locals as they went to the western front in April, 1918.
