Brigadier General William St Colum Bland CB CMG (6 June 1868 – 9 February 1950) was a senior British Army officer during the First World War.

[1] Born on 6 June 1868, William St Colum Bland was educated at Bedford School.

[2] He received his first commission in the Royal Artillery in 1887, and served during the Anglo-Manipur War in British India, between 1891 and 1892.

He was promoted to the rank of Major in 1906, and appointed as an instructor in the School of Gunnery, between 1906 and 1909, and as Superintendent of Experiments, between 1909 and 1913.

He served during the First World War between 1914 and 1918, and was President of the Ordnance Committee at the Ministry of Munitions between 1916 and 1919.