Frans_Alfred_Meeng

Frans Alfred Meeng

Frans Alfred Meeng

Indonesian footballer

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.

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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]

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  1. [1]
    Copa do Mundo da FIFA França 1938 Archived 2012-03-23 at the Wayback Machine
  2. [2]
    "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.
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    "Junyo Maru – Casualties". members.iinet.net.au. Archived from the original on 2012-03-12. Retrieved 2017-01-06.
  4. [4]
    "Frans Alfred Meeng". Oorlogsgravenstichting. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
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