2nd Lieutenant D. McG. Reid

[Ciaran Byrne]

Found the below whilst doing some lookups in the London Gazette. Any ideas what his crime was?

War Office,

16th September, 1919.

NOTICE.

His Majesty the KING has directed that the

award of the Military Medal to 2nd Lieutenant

D. McG. Reid, 5th Battalion, Argyll and

Sutherland Highlanders, when serving as No.

15419 Serjeant, 17th Battalion, Highland

Light Infantry, as published in the1 London

Gazette of the 19th February, 1917, shall be

cancelled, and his name erased from the

Register, in consequence of his having been

dismissed the Service by sentence of a General

Court-Martial.

Also found this...

His Majesty the KING has directed that the

award of the Military Medal- to Second

Lieutenant James Patrick George Smith,

Northumberland Fusiliers, when serving as

No, 1224 Serjeant, 15th Battalion, Lancashire

Fusiliers, as published in the London Gazette

on 26th May, 1917, shall be cancelled, and his

name erased from the Register, in consequence

of his having been dismissed the Service by

sentence of a General Court-Martial.