article_snippet.sent: As a young prisoner of war, Great-grandfather Robert Clark survived the brutality of the Nazi ‘death march’ across Europe.
article_snippet.sent: Great-grandfather Robert Clark father was a gunner in the Durham Light Infantry when His father was captured by the Nazis in the North African city of Tobruk in June 1942.
article_snippet.sent: His father spent the rest of the war in prison camps in Poland, before being forced to join the ‘death march’ in 1945.
article_snippet.sent: Hitler ordered thousands of PoWs to march west for four months in extreme winter weather as the Russians advanced from the East.
article_snippet.sent: After the war in prison camps, the soldier married the soldier sweetheart Rita and worked as a carpenter.
article_snippet.sent: Veteran Robert Clark, pictured in 1940, when Mrs Clark was serving with Durham Light Infantry .
article_snippet.sent: Prisoner: Robert Clark (front row, second left) pictured on June 21, 1943 at prisoner of war camp Campo PG70 in Italy .