AN UNDERTAKER who was a familiar sight at several armed forces repatriations at RAF Brize Norton has died aged 64.

Barry Albin-Dyer was for 30 years chairman of FA Albin & Sons, a Bermondsey-based funeral directors tasked with organising the repatriations and funerals of those who died serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He was born in south London on February 2, 1951, while his father Barry George Dyer was also an undertaker.

At Bacon’s College in Rotherhithe, where he was educated, he was made head boy and afterwards went straight into business.

Mr Albin-Dyer took over the family business from his father and his uncle in his mid-30s and expanded it greatly.

He was considered a “figurehead” in Bermondsey and in 1998 stepped in to help the Southwark News – the last paid-for independent weekly newspaper in London – when it was at risk of financial ruin, supporting it until new owners bought the company.

Mr Albin-Dyer died on June 6 after battling brain cancer for more than a year.

He is survived by his two sons Simon and Jon.