James Joachim Nicholas MiD (17 November 1890 – 20 September 1917) was an Australian rules footballer who played with University in the Victorian Football League.

He was killed in action, in Belgium, during World War I.

[8] Following his graduation, and before his military service, he practised medicine jointly with Dr. Richard Horace Gibbs in Colac, Victoria.

[9] A regular player for the university's Metropolitan Amateur Football Association (MAFA)[broken anchor] team, he played one VFL match for the university team, as a last minute inclusion in a team badly depleted in numbers, in the round 12 match, against Richmond Football Club, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, on 8 July 1911.

He served in the Australian Medical Corps during the First World War but was killed in action at the Menin Road Ridge, aged 26, on 20 September 1917,[10] while serving at the Passchendaele front.