Sergeant Thomas Frederick Stephenson DCM (1894 – 20 November 1917) was a British World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories.
[1] He was born in Eastfield, Peterborough, the son of George Frederick Stephenson and his wife Annie Georgina.
After destroying two enemy aircraft on 31 October, they in turn fell under the guns of Oberleutnant Hans Bethge.
[1] On 20 November 1917, the first day of the Battle of Cambrai, Stephenson and his observer Lieutenant William Morse set off on a reconnaissance mission over the German lines, but their aircraft was shot down,[2] apparently a victim of ground fire.
[3] Stephenson was listed as missing, presumed killed,[4] but Morse survived, although wounded, and was captured.