Claude de Bernales was a mining entrepreneur who built "Overton Lodge", which was bought by the Town of Cottesloe in 1950 and renamed the Cottesloe Memorial Town Hall and Civic Centre.
Claude de Bernales was a mining entrepreneur who in 1911 bought Attorney-General Richard Pennefather's 1898 Federation Queen Anne house, naming it "Overton Lodge". It was bought by the Town of Cottesloe in 1950 and renamed the Cottesloe War Memorial Town Hall and Civic Centre.