Bob Skitch

The Skitch Family Archive holds the memoirs of Robert Francis Skitch (1934 to 2026), written between 1999 and 2018. Nearly a million words cover a boyhood in Collie, National Service in the Navy, twenty-six years as an Army surveyor and officer, including a tour of South Vietnam, and a decade in public service in Brisbane. The app holds the whole archive and works without an internet connection. • Start with Bob: his biography and military service record, linked to the memoirs • Read every chapter, with the original photographs, footnotes and annexes • Listen to the narrated chapters, with the text highlighted as it is read • Download narration to listen offline in the car or on a plane • Keep listening from the lock screen, with a sleep timer and speed control • Search every word of the archive, including captions and footnotes • Bookmark passages and pick up where you left off •…