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The wigwam he built from birch bark that made her fall from hope

The wigwam he built from birch bark that made her fall from hope

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A soldier builds a birch-bark wigwam on Surrey heath and a nineteen-year-old woman moves in-how do you fall from that high?

The wigwam he built from birch bark that made her fall from hope

In this episode, we follow the last months of Joan Pearl Pearl’s life, her relationship with Private August Sangret, and the circumstances that led to her burial on Houndown Wood. What decisions, skills, and small discoveries shaped the path from a cricket pavilion to a dug grave?

Person: Joan Pearl Pearl
Person: August Sangret
Date: 7 October 1942
Location: Houndown Wood; Hankley Common; Jasper Camp near Godalming
Event: Wigwam shelter built from birch bark, poles and bracken

- Joan lived weeks sleeping in an abandoned cricket pavilion and wrote hopeful declarations on the walls while wearing a small wooden crucifix.
- Joan met Private August Sangret in a Godalming pub on 17 July 1942; nine days later she wrote him a letter saying “You are all I have in the world.”
- Sangret, a twenty-eight-year-old Canadian soldier with Cree heritage, arrived in Britain 24 March 1942 and was stationed at Jasper Camp from 13 July.
- Sangret’s survival skills included building shelters from birch bark and bracken; by August he had constructed a wigwam on Hankley Common where Joan moved in.
- Joan was found buried face down on 7 October 1942 after having been interred for about one month; she was nineteen and known locally as the Wigwam Girl.

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