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“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

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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.”

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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?

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GeoHive 25" map link. The photographer climbed up above the road to get this shot, so no Streetview to match.

The bridge was in use as a road in the 1980s and I presume is still there. The platform was also there, and I recollect other railway remains, but had no camera so took no photos.

The Glenflesk Valley is a most beautiful place. It was where we always stopped on our way down to Kerry for the mid journey picnic with flasks of tea. The station used to be a youth hostel and would appear to be a rental holiday house now. I stayed there once when it was a hostel cycling with my brother from Bandon to Kells Bay near Caherciveen. I had a puncture I needed to repair that evening and in the time it took to fix it, the midges had me eaten to next to nothing. The Kerry midges are savages. According to this website eiretrains.com: "Loo Bridge Station, Co.Kerry, was located on the September 1893 opened Great Southern & Western Railway branch line from Headford Jct, on the main line to Tralee, to the market town of Kenmare. Never a profitable line, the Kenmare branch was closed to all traffic in January 1959, with the tracks been lifted the following year. Loo Bridge Station only had one platform, and this survives along with the station building, which has been extended considerably since closure. The trackbed of the line has been turned into a narrow country lane. Adjacent to the station is an old GSWR semaphore signal and buffer stop. North of the station the line crosses the Clydagh River on a lattice girder bridge." And Streetview.

This was a station on the Kenmare branch of the Killarney and Tralee branch of the GS&W railway, opened in 1893.