Brigadier General Norman Tom Nickalls (April 1864 – 26 September 1915) was a British Army officer who lost his life in the Battle of Loos during the First World War.

Norman Tom Nickalls was born in April 1864 and received his education at Eton College.

[2][3] On 5 August 1914, a day after the British entry into World War I, Nickalls was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general[4] and was soon afterwards appointed to the command of the 63rd Infantry Brigade, one of three infantry brigades which formed part of the 21st Division, and was composed of civilian volunteers who had volunteered for service with Kitchener's Army.

[2] The next few months were, for Nickall's brigade, spent in training for eventual overseas service until August 1915 when it departed for the Western Front.

states that he saw him hit near the Chalk Pit, but all efforts to find his body proved unavailing.