Major-General Alan Bruce Blaxland, CB, OBE (17 October 1892 – 2 September 1963) was a senior British Indian Army officer during the Second World War.
[3] Blaxland was commissioned onto the Unattached List for the Indian Army on 5 August 1914 (the day after Britain's entry into the First World War), with seniority of 21 January 1913, from being a university candidate.
On 22 July 1942, he became General Officer Commanding of the 10th Indian Infantry Division, then serving in the Middle East until 28 August 1942.
He was promoted to an acting lieutenant general on 29 August 1942[citation needed] to command XXV Indian Corps[citation needed] but reverted to major general in August 1943 for his next appointment in India as District Officer Commanding Lahore District.
[5] After the war he was the chairman of the Indian National Army courts-martial held at the Red Fort at Delhi between November 1945 and May 1946.