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I haven't got an accurate estimate to hand but would guess that perhaps 500-600 of the 1,674 recipients of the Imperial Yeomanry Long Service medal saw active service in the ABW. I have a few examples of the QSA/IYLS combination in my collection and will add some here - to spark others to follow suit! I am always interested in finding out about surviving IYLS.
Ian

Here is a broken group, earned by David Messer WILLIAMS
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (14597 Bugr., Impl: Yeomanry); Imperial Yeomanry L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (27 S.S. Mjr., C. of L. (R.R.) I.Y.) Initials DN on QSA, DM on IYLS

Squadron Sergeant-Major D. M. Williams, City of London (Rough Riders) Imperial Yeomanry

David Messer Williams was born in Paddington.Birth registered 4th Q, 1881 Islington
His parents were John Williams and Sophia Annie Messer, married at Tregaron 3rd Q 1878

A Clerk by occupation and a serving member of the 14th (Inns of Court) Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, David attested for the Imperial Yeomanry on 9 March 1900, aged 20 years, 2 months. Posted to the 20th Battalion (Rough Riders) Imperial Yeomanry as a Bugler, he sailed for South Africa on 14 April 1900. He saw active service with the 76th Company in South Africa and returned safely home on 9 June 1901. He was discharged from the Imperial Yeomanry on 16 June 1901 and was subsequently awarded the Queen’s South Africa Medal.
Also served as 44405, 33rd Bn IY and entitled to South Africa 1901 clasp

Having enjoyed his time with the Yeomanry, Williams joined the newly formed City of London (Rough Riders) Imperial Yeomanry. Rising steadily through the ranks, by 1907 he was a Squadron Sergeant-Major and in May the same year he was awarded the Imperial Yeomanry L.S. & G.C.
Leaving the Yeomanry before the Great War, he re-enlisted in the Army Cyclist Corps on 28 August 1914. He was later promoted to Corporal but was discharged due to sickness on 6 April 1919, being issued with Silver War Badge B299858. He served overseas during WW1 earning the British War, Victory and Territorial Force War Medals as 14753 Cpl, Army Cyclist Corps – he appears in the medal rolls as David Williams. (Oddly, Jim Lees in the article mentioned below, states that Williams did not serve overseas but the SWB roll clearly shows that he did and gives his unusual middle name, thus confirming beyond a doubt that the plain "David Williams" is one and the same man.)

IYLS in Army Order 100, May 1907
16 Imperial Yeomanry L.S. & G.C. Medals awarded to the unit.
See the article on him by Jim Lees “Bugler to Squadron Sergeant Major” in OMRS Journal, Volume 45, No 3 (September 2006), p198-201

BWM/VM roll 14753 Cpl Williams, David (WO329/1732)
TFWM roll 14753 Cpl Williams, David XVth Corps Cyclist Bn (WO329/3267)

And here is another group (this one complete) to whet your appetite.

Henry Bircham BENNETT
Queen's South Africa Medal three clasps Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (808 Pte. H B Bennett, 10th Notts Coy Imp. Yeo.; Transvaal attached by different rivets) , 1914/15 Star (196 Sjt, Sher Rang), British War Medal, Victory Medal (404043 Sjt, RAF), Imperial Yeomanry Long Service Good Conduct Medal (EVIIR 196 Sjt, Notts (S’wood R) I.Y.), Territorial Force Efficiency Medal (Geo V; 196 Sjt, Sher Rang).
The group retains original ribbons and is mounted as worn. Original IYLS suspension ring attached to silver straight bar suspension.
Enlisted as 808, Imperial Yeomanry, 23 January 1900. Age 21 years 3 months (therefore born October/November 1878). Born Mansfield, a saddler, serving with Sherwood Rangers
6 years apprenticeship with E Bennett, Mansfield
Served in South Africa 28 January 1900 to 20 September 1900 – present at Bohof, Swartzkopfontein, Zand River, Lindley
Entiled to QSA clasps CC, OFS – no mention of Transvaal (WO128/121) so presumably this clasp was "self-awarded".
QSA clasps CC, OFS only with 10th Co, 3rd Bn (= Sherwood Rangers) discharged at own request 17 January 1901 (WO100/121)
1891 census: Downey Hill, Warsop; aged 12, scholar. His father was an agricultural foreman.
1901 census: son of George and Agnes, 63 High Street, Warsop. His father was a farm bailiff. Henry is shown aged 22, saddler and harness maker
Married: 3rd quarter, 1901, Mansfield to Beatrice Penford
IYLS Jan 1909
1911 census: age 32, saddler and harness maker, living at 42 Victoria Street,[Market] Warsop, Nottinghamshire with his wife of 10 years, Beatrice, and 3 sons. Henry was born in Mansfield.

Medal index cards shows that Bennett proceeded to Mediterranean Expeditionary Force 26 April 1915; also that he later served as 40001 in the Corps of Hussars
TEM announced in AO 433/November 1922 (196 Sjt, Nottinghamshire (Sherwood Rangers) Yeomanry, latterly 403043, RAF) – NB TFEM issued, not TEM.

Death registered 2nd Q, 1946 Mansfield, aged 67

Another example of this pairing

John FRAME

Queen's South Africa Medal with bars Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen and SA 1901 (2887 Sgt, 17th Coy Imp Yeo), Imperial Yeomanry Long Service Medal (230 Sjt, Lanark I.Y.)
SA 1901 bar is loose on ribbon and the right side of that bar face is detached from the carriage.

QSA confirmed in Asplin’s roll. IYLS awarded in AO 27 of Feb 1905, one of 30 to the unit.

He was born in Douglas, Lanarkshire on 27 April 1868, the son of Jamieson Frame, a wire fencer, and Janet (Currie).
He was a farmer aged 30 years 9 months (sic) when he enlisted as 2887, IY on 11 January 1900 being posted as Cpl to 17th Company, 6th bn IY. Noted as “single” (sic), his next of kin (brother?) was Josiah Frame, Newsleading (?), Lanark.

The discharge certificate records his character as “very good” and his age as 32 4/12 on 30 August 1901 when he was discharged as a Sergeant. Frame served in South Africa from 23 February 1900 to 25 August 1901.

Cpl J Frame is noted as having briefly commanded the 4th section or troop of the 17th Company when the officer, Lieutenant St John Graham had had to leave and Sgt Campbell (who replaced him) was wounded at Rensburg Drift (Records of Lanarkshire Imperial Yeomanry, 1819-1910 by Surgeon Lt Col Russell E Wood, p70) Frame is listed in the nominal roll on p74 as Cpl, Yeoman i.e. already serving with the Lanarkshire Imperial Yeomanry.

A short biography appears on p130 “Serg J Frame. Farmer, Nemphlar, Lanark. May be said to be “another of the same”, being probably only second to Findlater in the number of prizes he has captured. He is described as “every inch a sportsman, and generally goes in for any form of sport in which horsemanship takes a part”. On the outbreak of the South African War he joined the contingent of yeomen which were sent out by the regiment. Medal and clasps. Some of his brothers have also served in the regiment.”

His QSA and four clasps are confirmed in his papers and on the medal rolls, although his number is given as 2827 on the roll for the date clasp.

1891 census: living at Glentewing, Crawfordjohn, South Lanarkshire – farm servant aged 22; born Douglas, Lanarkshire. He married one of the farmer’s daughters, Jane, on 31 March 1892.
1901 census: he is shown as head of Moat farm, Wiston and Roberton, South Lanarkshire, aged 32 with 3 sons.

John Frame died on 10 January 1950 at the age of 81

Thank you. It is a genuine delight to see them.

Best

Mark

Picture courtesy of Spink

QSA (4) Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (100 Q.M.Sgt. E. Morel. 1st. Impl: Yeo:);
Army LS&GC VR (714. Tp. Cpl. Maj: E. Morel. 2nd. Life Gds.);
Imperial Yeomanry LS&GC Ed VII (232 R.S. Maj: E. Morel. R. Wilts: I.Y.)

38 Imperial Yeomanry L.S. & G.C. Medals awarded to Royal Wiltshire Imperial Yeomanry.

Edward Morel was born in 1854 at East Grinstead, West Sussex, the son of Alfred Morel and Ellen Tate. By family repute his father was the illegitimate child of the union between a Madame Morel of France and William, 3rd Baron de Blaquiere, of Ardkill in the County of Londonderry, who later committed suicide at Norwood in consequence of failing health associated with lithropic disease and smallpox.

The 1881 England Census records Morel as married to Sarah Ann and living at the barracks of the Life Guards in Regents Park whilst serving as Corporal of Horse in the 2nd Battalion. A decade later he is noted as R.M. of 'G' Troop at Rood Ashton (The Annals of the Yeomanry of Wiltshire, refers) and the 1911 Census records the couple living at West Ashton, near Trowbridge, Wiltshire, his occupation described as 'Army pensioner and storage agent'. He is also father to a 20 year old daughter named Nora. Affectionately known as 'The Sergeant Major' in his village and known for his bluff and hearty manner and burly structure and build, Morel died in 1933 having struggled with failing health for two years. His obituary which was published in The Parade (Trowbridge) Newspaper, adds a little more detail regarding his career:

'His was an interesting and varied career. As a young man he served for two years in the St. George's Volunteers, London - for he was a Londoner and in all his years in Wilts never quite lost the accent of the Metropolis. After this he joined the Life Guards, and served in this famous Regiment for 15 years, qualifying for the Long Service Medal. On leaving the Regular Army at the expiration of this period he became attached to the permanent staff of the Royal Wiltshire Imperial Yeomanry, with the rank of Sergeant-Major, and served the county's cavalry regiment for twenty-two years, qualifying for another long service medal - a very rare distinction - and retiring with the rank of Regimental Sergeant Major in 1908. He was made the recipient at the annual camp, of a handsome cheque and piece of plate from his comrades of the Yeomanry, Colonel (now Brigadier-General) Palmer making the presentation.

When the two companies of the Royal Wilts Imperial Yeomanry were raised at Trowbridge in 1900 for service in the South African War, Sergt.-Major Morel did splendid work in recruiting and training the men, and himself went to the front with them, with the rank of Quartermaster Sergeant. Though when the Great War came in 1914 he had long passed the age for active service, his heart was always with the Forces, and many were the ways in which he served the country's cause at home. It will be recalled that it was Mr. Morel who provided Trowbridge with its first "Roll of Honour" board, which hung outside the Town Hall until the list became too long to be shown thereon, and a larger one became necessary.

After his military service had concluded he settled at West Ashton, carrying on the business as a forage merchant, but finding time for many public duties.'