Alan Turing's schoolboy friend
Introduced him to cyphers to amend
Christopher Morcum sadly died
Before his own destiny had arrived
He's buried in Christchurch in Catshill
His image in stained glass upon the windowsill
He's buried alongside those in the family plot
Eternally entombed insciribed NOT forgot
He died as a schoolboy of bovine TB
He deserves to be remembered by you and by me
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Inspired Turing invented thinking computing machines
In loving memory of the boy forever in his dreams...
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I was asked by people who know the Morcum family to write this poem
It's out of love and admiration for a true hero of a past generation and his inspiration
Turing invented his machine who he named Christopher to break the Enigma machine in the second world war
Thankfully he was successful
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