article_snippet.sent: We will do everything We can to ensure Robbie gets the support Robbie deserves.' Great-grandfather Robert Clark is one of Britain's oldest surviving prisoners of war  - and one of the few British soldiers to survive Hitler's 1,000-mile death march - has been given the emergency grant through the Help for Heroes quick reaction fund.
article_snippet.sent: Great-grandfather Robert Clark was a gunner in the Durham Light Infantry when Great-grandfather Robert Clark was captured by the Nazis in the North African city of Tobruk in June 1942.
article_snippet.sent: Great-grandfather Robert Clark spent the rest of the war in prison camps in Poland, before being forced to join the ‘death march’ in 1945.
article_snippet.sent: Veteran Robert Clark, pictured in 1940, when he was serving with Durham Light Infantry .
article_snippet.sent: Veteran Robert Clark, pictured in 1940, when he was serving with Durham Light Infantry pictured on June 21, 1943 at prisoner of war camp Campo PG70 in Italy .
article_snippet.sent: After war, the soldier married the soldier sweetheart Rita and worked as a carpenter.
article_snippet.sent: In 1969 the couple moved into the house where the soldier still lives in Burnt Oak, north London.