Frans Alfred Meeng Explained

Frans Alfred Meeng
Birth Date:	18 January 1910
Birth Place:	Dutch East Indies
Position:	Midfielder
Clubs1:	SVVB Batavia
Nationalteam1:	Dutch East Indies

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]}

Notes and References

1. http://pt.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition=5/teams/team=44031.html Copa do Mundo da FIFA França 1938
2. Web site: The Sinking of the Junyo Maru. One of the largest, yet most forgotten, maritime disaster of WWII! . 2017-01-06 . 2012-03-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120312064714/http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~vanderkp/junyopg8.html . dead .
3. Web site: Junyo Maru – Casualties. members.iinet.net.au. 2017-01-06. 2012-03-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20120312064714/http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~vanderkp/junyopg8.html. dead.
4. Web site: Frans Alfred Meeng. 15 March 2021. Oorlogsgravenstichting.