Charles Edward Montague (1867–1928) was an English journalist, known also as a writer of novels and essays published in the Manchester Guardian. Although forty-seven with a wife and seven children, Montague volunteered to join the British Army in 1914. He worked in Military Intelligence and for two years had the task of writing propaganda for the British Army and censoring articles.
After the war, Montague returned to the Manchester Guardian and stayed there until he retired in 1925. He wrote several books including the novels A Hind Let Loose and Rough Justice, and a collection of essays, Disenchantment (1922) about the First World War.