Frans Alfred Meeng

Frans Alfred Meeng (18 January 1910 – 18 September 1944) was an Indonesian football midfielder who played for the Dutch East Indies in the 1938 FIFA World Cup.[1] He also played for SVVB Batavia.

Frans Alfred Meeng
Personal information
Date of birth (1910-01-18)18 January 1910
Place of birth Dutch East Indies
Date of death 18 September 1944(1944-09-18) (aged 34)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
SVVB Batavia
National team
Dutch East Indies
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

A corporal in the Netherlands Marine Corps in World War II who became a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese, he died along with thousands of others when the Japanese cargo ship Jun'yō Maru sank after being torpedoed by the British submarine HMS Tradewind.[2][3]

References
  1. Copa do Mundo da FIFA França 1938 Archived 2012-03-23 at the Wayback Machine
  2. The Sinking of the Junyo Maru. One of the largest, yet most forgotten, maritime disaster of WWII!
  3. "Junyo Maru – Casualties". members.iinet.net.au.
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