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Indonesian footballer

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. 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.

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.

External links

Dutch East Indies squad – 1938 FIFA World Cup
Dutch East Indies
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