Australia's News.com reports:
It is believed his loss stemmed from a war injury in 1916 when Franco was wounded during battle at El Biutz, near Ceuta, which today is a Spanish enclave on the Moroccan Mediterranean coast.
On June 28-29, 1916, Franco, then a captain, led an attack in the region which was then a Spanish protectorate and was hit in his lower abdomen and seriously wounded.
The paper, citing several authors of Franco biographies, added that such an injury would have affected Franco's reproductive organs and made him sterile.
