Opinion | Oh the irony: Scottish soldiers defending Hong Kong in 1941 used tunnels whose builders named them after roads in London

Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly, Shaftesbury Avenue: names given to the tunnels of Hong Kong’s Shing Mun Redoubt. Yet their occupants in 1941 were Scots for whom London was in a foreign land.

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