Frans Alfred Meeng (18 January 1910 – 18 September 1944) was an Indonesian football

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

who played for the Dutch East Indies in the

1938 FIFA World Cup The 1938 FIFA World Cup was the third edition of the World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams and was held in France from 4 June until 19 June 1938. Italy defended its title in the final, bea ...

. He also played for SVVB Batavia. A corporal in the Netherlands Marine Corps in

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

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''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Meeng, Frans Alfred 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