It’s a cracking photo. I may have bid on it if I’d seen it, but not to that level.

The codes EM-W would seem to make it L7380 of 207 Sqn, damaged by night fighter near Kiel and force landed on beach at Ameland Is, Frisians, on 7/8th September 1941. Pilot F/L W J Lewis, and all crew POWs, target was Berlin.

Info from Robert Kirby’s excellent book on the Manchester, and Bomber Command Losses by W R Chorley.