Frans Alfred Meeng

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
International career
Dutch East Indies
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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.

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][4]

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!". Archived from the original on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  3. ^ "Junyo Maru – Casualties". members.iinet.net.au. Archived from the original on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  4. ^ "Frans Alfred Meeng". Oorlogsgravenstichting. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
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