 In his seventies, Large, along with Pete Scholey, returned to the Borneo jungle as part of a 2003 Channel 4 documentary about the history of the SAS, taking the camera crew to the exact spot on the bank of the Sungei Koemba River where his patrol had successfully ambushed an Indonesian Army river boat in 1965.Having been ill with leukaemia for three years, Large died aged 76 at St Michael's Hospice, Hereford.His funeral was held on 1 November 2006 at St Martin's Church (which has a long association with the SAS).