Phil, Nelson's Surgeon, Brockliss, Cardwell and Moss (Oxford university Press 2005) Mentions Westenburg a couple of times:
Page 107, No record of Westenburg's examination for mate or asisstant has been found before January 1807, when he failed, suggesting that he had been warranted acting mate by Nelson sometime before Trafalgar, and was of limited ability. Neither had experience of battle. [Smith the other Asisstant Surgeon on Victory]
Page 159, The careers of the asisstant surgeons Smith and Westenburg were equally unspectacular, according to the naval service documents in the National Archives. Westenburg served as acting surgeon on the sloop Atalante for two years 1808-10, then disappears from the records: presumably he eventually went back to Holland, which seems to have been his country of birth.
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