Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of the late William Bland, a Gardener, born 1860 in Newton Harcourt, Leics., and who died in 1897, and his wife Elizabeth, born 1861 in Kibworth, Leics. Arthur Farmer Bland was born in 1891 in Great Glen, Leics., his siblings were Ernest, born 1882, Bertie, born 1887, Fred, born 1889, Percy, born 1894 and Beatrice, born 1897, all his siblings were born in Great Glen, Leics., in March 1901 the family home was at School Street, Glen Magna, Great Glen, Leics., in the Ecclesiastical Parish of Great Glen, St. Cuthbert. In April 1911 Arthur was employed as a Hosiery Worker and was residing in the family home at Glen Magna, Leics., together with his widowed mother and siblings, Fred, Percy and Beatrice.