His company remained fighting throughout the summer and autumn of 1944 during the German withdrawal from Russia into Latvia. Gaitars was seriously wounded during fighting in the Courland Pocket and was forced to leave the frontline until January 1945. On March 22, 1945 he was again seriously wounded and died of his wounds in a field hospital in Zante near Tukums. Rūdolfs Gaitars was buried in a small rural cemetery near the homestead of ‘’Dārziņi’’.