Battle had most painful wounds (8)

I believe the answer is:

hastings

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'battle' is the definition.
(Battle of Hastings, 1066 battle)

'had most painful wounds' is the wordplay.
'most' means to remove the last letter.
'painful wounds' becomes 'stings' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'had' with its last letter taken away is 'ha'.
'ha'+'stings'='HASTINGS'

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(Other definitions for hastings that I've seen before include "Town in East Sussex" , "Not a good place for Harold" , "Harold's objective?" , "Ten Sixty-Six battle" , "English town" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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