Staying near the ships makes you look like a coward, and you are disobeying orders.Patroling the nearby streets for German scouts is not very dangerous and it turns out to be a very wise move! The Germans are advancing on Brest much faster than expected. The British and Canadian recon patrols are barely able to sound a warning in time. The Allied soldiers are ordered back to their ships to withdraw as quickly as possible. The few soldiers who wandered too far never got back in time. They became the first Canadian prisoners of war.