Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Thomas and Harriet (nee Edwards) Richards. Samuel embarked for Boulogne on the 29th July 1915. Samuel fought with the 8th Battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment until he was wounded in the legs during an action to take the village of Guedecourt, on the 28th September 1916. He was transported to England where he was hospitalised for several months. Once he recovered sufficiently he was reposted to France on the 17th March 1917 where he joined the 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment in the Loos sector. Samuel was wounded in early June and was stretchered to the 33rd Casualty Clearing Station where he succumbed to his wounds. Other sources show his place of residence as Swannington, Leics.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Coalville Times article - Friday June 29th, 1917

Mr and Mrs Thomas Richards, of 150, Church Lane, Whitwick, have been notified by the War Office that their son, Pte. Samuel Richards, of the Leicestershire Regiment, died on June 10th from wounds received in action in France two days earlier. He was a single man, 25 years of age, and before the war worked at the Whitwick Colliery, where his father is employed. He joined up in August, 1914, and had been previously twice wounded, returning to the Front the last time in March last. He was an old boy of the Whitwick Church School.

Research undertaken and submitted by Andy Murby 17/11/2017