1919

See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/29720022025/

I can read "Friday, September" and see a single digit for the date. The headline reads: "Senate Will Ratify Treaty, Says Wilson, And Our Men In Khaki Will Never Have To Cross The Seas Again. Senators Adopt Four Drastic Treaty Reservations." The day on the paper is Friday and the year must be 1919 during the Actor's strike. The treaty was not signed until 1921. I thought we were in a 1923 tranche of images based on the people arriving by boat, but we must be back in 1919 for this image. Someone must have reused it in 1923 and did not file it back in 1919. 1919 Actors' Equity Association strike www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16152653

It's from the same shoot as based on words visible on the newspaper.

The exact date is Friday, September 5, 1919. I found the Thursday evening edition with the same headline.

“The South Irish Horse was a Special Reserve cavalry regiment of the British Army. Formed as an Imperial Yeomanry regiment in 1902 as the South of Ireland Imperial Yeomanry, it perpetuated a unit formed during the Second Boer War. It transferred to the Special Reserve (Cavalry) in 1908 and was renamed as the South Irish Horse. Having taken part in the fighting of World War I, it was disbanded after Irish Independence in 1922.”
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Irish_Horse

“taken in Russia?”
Sound unlikely

www.mordaunt.me.uk/my%20family%20history.html

They do look very cold, unusual to see troops wearing scarves?

Russia seems very unlikely.

“On 12 June 1922 King George V received at Windsor Castle representatives of the six disbanded Irish regiments. While five had long and distinguished service records, the South Irish Horse (SIH) had only been raised in 1902, as a result of the second Boer War, but too late to take part.
On the outbreak of The Great War a single squadron of the SIH was sent to Flanders which was involved in the retreat from Mons and the Marne and the early battles of Ypres, Neuve Chapelle. The remainder of the Regiment followed and over the next four years, won ten battle honours including Loos 1915, Somme 1916 and 1918, Albert, St Quentin, Courtrai and finally France and Flanders 1915-1918. Losses were severe and there were many acts of gallantry.”

www.naval-military-press.com/product/south-irish-horse-in...

Perhaps it's a sign of the times, but none of them could be described as tall. Maybe as they are wrapped up in layers of heavy clothing they appear as shorter?

Marksburg am Rhein, 1919 www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/34728243504/