Eric Brown

Age: 8

Summary: Australian Year Two student at Middle Kinglake Primary School in the north-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia who was among one of more than 300 people believed to be missing and feared dead in a series of bushfires that ignited or were burning across the Australian state of Victoria on February 7, 2009 killing at least 170 people including his parents Adrian and Mirrabelle Brown and two other siblings Matthew (aged 7) and Brielle (aged 3) and also seriously injured more than 400 others when the blaze destroyed their property in the Kinglake township during extreme weather conditions, in which it became one of the worst bushfire disasters ever recorded in Australian history that has become widely referred to as Black Saturday.

Cause of Death: Killed in a bushfire

Born: April 23, 2000

Died: February 7, 2009

Location: Kinglake, Australia