St Edward's WWI Letter Transcriptions

I was really too frightened to take a photo of her but I [it] did not occur to me until too late. However, I took a photo of the French flag ship which rescued us. Well, it seems funny, but having had a narrow escape there, when I got to port I was feeling fit, so of course I had to have a rough with an Arab boat man; he tried to hit me on the head with an oar. Well, since I have been on the Worcester, I have learnt boxing so I dogded [dodged] the oar and let him have one on tow. He immediately he had [sic] recovered from being winded got out a knife and had a jog at me. I had had enough then, so I jumped out of the boat into the canal, but his knife just caught my shoulder as I went. However, I was picked by Dowrie’s motor boat (Dowrie is the Port Said engineer) none the worse. I hope to get in the RNR in July. From yours truly, Christopher L. Bird.