The Boob
Written by
W. E. Johns
Copyright 1932
11th of 17 stories in . It was first published in Popular Flying Machine, September 1932 and republished in The Modern Boy #267, Mar. 18, 1933 and again as Bertie the Boob in The Modern Boy Annual, 1940.
An old family friend pulls strings to get a young and immature man named Algernon 'Algy' Montgomery into Biggles' squadron. It will take some time for Algy to be accepted.