Pete & Gary's Military History

Fighting in Italy continues for the Durham Light Infantry as they close in on Naples. Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Producer: Jess Stebnicki Become a member to listen ad-free and receive special bonus content for only £2 per month : https://plus.acast.com/s/pete-and-garys-military-history Support the show with a one-off contribution: www.buymeacoffee.com/pgmh Find o...

This week we have a minor diversion in our story of the 16th Durham Light Infantry as we explore the Salerno Mutiny through the eyes of one Durham - Ronald Elliott. It's quite a story! Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Producer: Jess Stebnicki Become a member to listen ad-free and receive special bonus content for only £2 per month : https://plus.acast.com/s/pete-and-ga...

Once again the South Notts Hussars are threatened by government defence cuts! How will they survive - and if they do which Territorial Army Yeomanry regiment will be lost! They couldn’t all survive! Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Producer: Jess Stebnicki Become a member to listen ad-free and receive special bonus content for only £2 per month : https://plus.acast.com...

This week the Durham Light Infantry are landing at Salerno in 1943 and then have to hold Hospital Hill against - guess what - German counterattacks! How will it end??! Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Producer: Jess Stebnicki Become a member to listen ad-free and receive special bonus content for only £2 per month : https://plus.acast.com/s/pete-and-garys-military-hist...

The Tunisian Campaign continues as the bruised and battered members of the Durham Light Infantry advance on Tunis. Will they succeed or fail?! Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Producer: Jess Stebnicki Become a member to listen ad-free and receive special bonus content for only £2 per month : https://plus.acast.com/s/pete-and-garys-military-history Support the show with...

The next episode of the 16th DLI series is a murderous affair - THE BATTLE OF SEDJENANE, 1943. The Durhams aren't decimated - it was far worse than that! Yet most people have never heard of this battle. Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Producer: Jess Stebnicki Become a member to listen ad-free and receive special bonus content for only £2 per month : https://plus.acast...

This week the 16th DLI begin their Great Adventure as they take over defensive positions on a ridge facing the Germans up on Green Hill and Baldy Hill in North Africa, January 1943. It’s going to be tough! Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Producer: Jess Stebnicki Become a member to listen ad-free and receive special bonus content for only £2 per month : https://plus.ac...

In the latest instalment of Laugh or Cry, Pete and Gary discuss the closing days of the war as the Allies advance to victory in 1918. Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Producer: Jess Stebnicki Become a member to listen ad-free and receive special bonus content for only £2 per month : https://plus.acast.com/s/pete-and-garys-military-history Support the show with a one-of...

Pete and Gary continue the story of the 16th Durham Light Infantry in the Second World War. Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Producer: Jess Stebnicki Become a member to listen ad-free and receive special bonus content for only £2 per month : https://plus.acast.com/s/pete-and-garys-military-history Support the show with a one-off contribution: www.buymeacoffee.com/pgmh...

Pete and Gary continue their exploration of the South Notts Hussars in their years after the Second World War. Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Producer: Jess Stebnicki Become a member to listen ad-free and receive special bonus content for only £2 per month : https://plus.acast.com/s/pete-and-garys-military-history Support the show with a one-off contribution: www.buy...

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New beginnings as we commence our latest series - this one to coincide with the publication of Pete's latest book, Footsloggers . We start at the very beginning with the formation of the 16th Durham Light Infantry as a 'Dunkirk' battalion in July 1940. Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Producer: Jess Stebnicki Become a member to listen ad-free and receive special bonus...

All good things must come to an end, and so must Pete and Gary's epic series on the Battle of Jutland! What were the repercussions of the battle? Where does it belong in history? Will Gary ever stop doing his German accent? All this and more in this week's episode! Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Producer: Jess Stebnicki Become a member to listen ad-free and receive s...

This week we continue the saga of the Battle of Jutland with Frenzy in the Night! Not Gary's usual nocturnal manoeuvres but the escape of the German High Seas Fleet across the rear of the Grand Fleet light forces! Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Producer: Jess Stebnicki Become a member to listen ad-free and receive special bonus content for only £2 per month : https:/...

Pete and Gary continue the fascinating story of the South Notts Hussars in the years after the Second World War. Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Producer: Jess Stebnicki Become a member to listen ad-free and receive special bonus content for only £2 per month : https://plus.acast.com/s/pete-and-garys-military-history Support the show with a one-off contribution: www.b...

The sun has set over the opposing fleets during the Battle of Jutland, but that doesn't mean the action is over! What could possibly happen next?? Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Producer: Jess Stebnicki Become a member to listen ad-free and receive special bonus content for only £2 per month : https://plus.acast.com/s/pete-and-garys-military-history Support the show...

Pete and Gary continue their gripping account of the Battle of Jutland! It's late in the evening, and things are not going well for the German High Seas Fleet! Admiral Scheer manoeuvres in desperation as he tries to escape from the warm 'embrace' of the deployed massed guns of the Grand Fleet. Will he do it? Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Producer: Jess Stebnicki Bec...

Jutland is boiling up to a climax with the Clash of the Dreadnoughts as Scheer's High Seas Fleet runs straight into Jellicoe's Grand Fleet. But will Jellicoe be able to deploy in time? The tension is excruciating - as are Gary's German accents! Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Producer: Jess Stebnicki Become a member to listen ad-free and receive special bonus content...

The Battle of Jutland continues! The Royal Navy and the High Seas Fleet are converging! Who will outmanoeuvre who as the fleets turn northwards? Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Producer: Jess Stebnicki Become a member to listen ad-free and receive special bonus content for only £2 per month : https://plus.acast.com/s/pete-and-garys-military-history Support the show wi...

To commemorate the anniversary of the landings at Gallipoli, Pete and Gary are telling the story of the heroic landings at W Beach, also known as Lancashire Landing. It's the gripping tale of 'six VCs before breakfast'! Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Producer: Jess Stebnicki Become a member to listen ad-free and receive special bonus content for only £2 per month : h...

Historian Mat McLachlan would love you to join him on his Signature Tour of the battlefields of France and Belgium in 2024. The Signature Tour is the only tour that Mat personally escorts, and it is the most popular tour offered by Mat McLachlan Battlefield Tours. In 2024 the tour will visit all the key Australian battlefields of the Somme, the Ypres Salient and French Flanders. It starts and ends...

In this special Anzac Day episode, Mat McLachlan speaks to historians Pete Smith and Peter Hart about the landscape of Belgium, France and Gallipoli, and how the secrets of the battlefields are still being revealed more than a century after the guns fell silent. Pete Smith reveals relics he's found on the battlefields of the Western Front, and Peter Hart describes how getting off the beaten track...

It's 1969 and the South Notts Hussars are undergoing another transformation! Now known as 307 Observation Post Battery, what will the future of the Cold War look like for the unit? Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Producer: Jess Stebnicki Become a member to listen ad-free and receive special bonus content for only £2 per month : https://plus.acast.com/s/pete-and-garys-...

It's the afternoon of the first day, and the Battle of Jutland is raging! Pete and Gary explore the next gripping chapter of the greatest naval battle of the First World War! Presenters: Peter Hart and Gary Bain Publisher: Mat McLachlan Producer: Jess Stebnicki Become a member to listen ad-free and receive special bonus content for only £2 per month : https://plus.acast.com/s/pete-and-garys-milita...

The battle has begun! In the latest episode of Pete and Gary's special series on the Battle of Jutland, they explore the role of the battlecruisers in the opening stages of the battle. Did the British or German navy do a better job with their fleet disposition and strategy? Become a member to listen ad-free and receive special bonus content for only £2 per month : https://plus.acast.com/s/pete-and...