THE story of a North-East-born soldier, who joined the Anzac war-effort a century ago, can now be read on-line.

Christopher ‘Kit’ Buckton was one of the many County Durham men who fought for Australia and New Zealand during the First World War.

Their tales of heroism in the Great Wat battlefield, many in the near and Middle-East, can be viewed on the Durham at War website, a First World War centenary project run by the county council’s archive, museum and archaeology services, backed by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

It was highlighted to mark Anzac Day, yesterday, when the efforts of those who served the two antipodean countries in conflict is remembered.

The site tells how Kit, born in Durham on Christmas Day 1869, emigrated to Adelaide, in South Australia, with his family while he was still a child.

He lied about his date of birth to volunteer for the Australian Imperial Forces, in July 1915, when aged 46, six years above the official cut off age.

Kit survived more than three years in Egypt as well as the Western Front and died in 1927 several years after his return to Australia.

His story, and those of other First World War servicemen from the county, can be seen on www.durhamatwar.org.uk/, which will remain live until the end of the year.