Frans Alfred Meeng

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.^[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

^ Copa do Mundo da FIFA França 1938 Archived 2012-03-23 at the Wayback Machine
^ "The Sinking of the Junyo Maru. One of the largest, yet most forgotten, maritime disaster of WWII!". Archived from the original on 2012-03-12. Retrieved 2017-01-06.
^ "Junyo Maru – Casualties". members.iinet.net.au. Archived from the original on 2012-03-12. Retrieved 2017-01-06.
^ "Frans Alfred Meeng". Oorlogsgravenstichting. Retrieved 15 March 2021.