Hassan Mohamed was a “male of Turkish nationality” and an “alien interned in Camp 4 Compound 6” of the Knockaloe Camp in the parish of Patrick on the Isle of Man. He was the uncle of Dervish Hassan, a farmer by occupation who had been arrested at Gibraltar in September 1914 and transferred from Lancaster to Knockaloe on September 16, 1915, where he remained until his death in 1917 of pulmonary tuberculosis and exhaustion. Dervish was married with two children and had left his family behind in the Anatolian Peninsula.

            Hassan was also interned with Dervish’s step-brother, Selim Hassan. Communicating through an interpreter, Selim identified himself as a prisoner of war interned along with Dervish in Camp 4 Compound 6 of Knockaloe Camp. The two men had been arrested at the same time. Selim explained that Dervish was returning to “Turkey” from the United States. Hassan, also communicating through an interpreter, identified himself as Dervish’s uncle and a fellow prisoner of war (registration 18216 [sic]). He indicated that he had visited his nephew in the hospital and had “no complaint to make as to his treatment.” Hassan signed with an x.[1]

[1] Isle of Man Public Record Office, A168, inquest files: Dervish Hassan.