'Circumstances Alter Cases' 'Showing the value of locality in warfare' A cartoon in The Bystander by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather illustrating the difference the location and context can make to an action. In the top cartoon an officer in a restaurant shoots a German waiter in 'an outburst of patriotic vigour'. This, suggests Bairnsfather, '...would undoubtedly get the military very cross.' In the lower cartoon, the same officer shoots the same German, but from a trench. In such a situation, says Bairnsfather, '...you can do what you like, with a reasonable chance of getting the Military Cross.'