Frans Alfred Meeng
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 18 January 1910 | ||
Place of birth | Dutch East Indies | ||
Date of death | 18 September 1944 | (aged 34)||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
National team | |||
Dutch East Indies | |||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
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 .
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!
- ^ "Junyo Maru – Casualties". members.iinet.net.au.
- ^ "Frans Alfred Meeng". Oorlogsgravenstichting. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
Categories:
- 1910 births
- 1944 deaths
- Indonesian footballers
- Indonesia international footballers
- Association football midfielders
- 1938 FIFA World Cup players
- People from Palembang
- Royal Netherlands Marine Corps personnel of World War II
- Dutch military personnel killed in World War II
- Deaths due to shipwreck at sea
- Dutch prisoners of war in World War II
- World War II prisoners of war held by Japan
- Military personnel killed by friendly fire