Geoffrey Ingram Stephens was a pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force. He was born in Launceston on 27 April 1927. His parents were Ingram Wilson Stephens and Vera Faith Opie. Geoffrey was a distinguished student at the Launceston High School and was employed as a clerk. He learnt to fly with the Tasmanian Aero Club at Western Junction and joined the RAAF in 1945 at age 18. He served during the Second World War for three months before the war ended. He was discharged and re-enlisted in 1949. He joined the No. 77 Squadron and served in the Korean War. He was killed on 6 January 1951 when his Mustang aircraft was shot down on a reconnaissance mission south-west of Seoul.;;;;Pilot Officer Stephens was posthumously awarded the American Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal. The citiation for the DFC reads: "He performed an act of exceptional achievement while flying over enemy territory in Korea on 20th November, 1950. Through adverse weather and over extremely rugged terrain, he made repeated devastating passes and personally destroyed three anti-aircraft positions and two supply trucks. He had flown seventy-four combat missions.";;;;His body was never recovered, but his name is on the United Nations Memorial Cemetery, Korea, Wall 2.