Pow Card From Germany To Canada - History ??

These are scans of a POW card from Germany to Canada in 1943. I have some thoughts about the people involved but I would be very open to other possible interpretations of it




I have turned up the contrast to make them easier to read.

We have a POW (15-08-1943) card from a Royal Navy (Josph T Reid RN) service man to his two of his children (Marie and Baby) in, apparently, a Canadian orphanage. Marie being at school from the text. So far I have not been able to find much about the orphanage on the web.

My thoughts.

Many UK children were sent to Canada to escape the bombing in 1941. Is it possible or probable that these children were two such evacuees? Reading about this system it seems that the children from the UK went to Canadian families but these seemed to wind up in the orphanage - perhaps because of the baby ? ?Were babies sent to Canada?

At some time the sailor must have been captured. I do not think I will be able to find out much more about that. With his wife left in the UK.;

An alternative could be that the sailor was in fact Canadian who for some reason had joined the Royal Navy and had no wife or other relatives in Canada who could look after his family.

Any comments, thoughts or other suggestions would be much appreciated.
If not it is an interesting puzzle.

AQ

Mystifying. There's a thousand possibilities. Here's one for you: He was a British immigrant to Canada. He signed up for service in RCN but was assigned to duties (because of his specialization) with the RN. During his service or imprisonment his wife died, and there were no other relatives in Canada, or people prepared to take the children. Canadian government arranged for the children to be looked after there until his return.

Were I you I'd write to the Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax. They might shed some light on this. If you have his regimental number, Canadian Government Archives (Ottawa) may have is service records.

Doesn't look like English writing or phraseology - what English person ever said "grade in school"?